Oh well, this is what I get for messing with 10 year old hardware. All kinds of hardware death happening, especially when she went from 16 to 8MB in one fell swoop. I might get curious to see if I can get her going on 8MB but I doubt it. I forgot how much I hated to work on AT boxes back in the day....My AT box looked like a mess when I finished up with it, holes cut in the back for new motherboards, stuff like that. I went from the original AT 286 to a 386 and then a 486 motherboard before it got passed on. I had a lot of fun with it. For some reason I just could not get DSL Linux onto the hard drive of the Pentium 600, but was able to load in Red Hat Linux with a dual boot system OK. I use DSL on a floppy boot and CD ROM if I want to try it there, although it installed fine on my laptop.
It's fun to experiment, my daughter said my study is beginning to look like the Bat Cave!Yeah my house looks like a flea market right now. I have 5 boxes in various stages of assembly here. 4 of them belong to my kids and were all networked. Then came the divorce and the ex is hardware impaired, so now I have them all here for repair. Sigh....
I got rid of my 286 and 386 machines a long time ago. My ex father in law has an old Tandy XT laying around. I wonder...? JohnD wrote
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I don't intend to load down the laptop with much more than what DSL has to keep the load light, and hopefully she'll give me a few more years of service.
well John, DSl isnt'l like winblows (tyhe more programs you put in, the more you mess up your OS and slow the HW). you can have all software you want as a .dsl or .uci (better for old hw) and load them whenever you need them. or keep them loaded at startup, if you want to. there are many ways to store them, but the essence of the story is that you can store them without worrying about the system to mess up. cheer up! Thanks guys,
It really is amazing how much there is in the packages. I am VERY impressed on how these LINUX packages check out your hardware and correctly find everything in your computer. Frankly, the only reason I am hanging onto Windblows is that there are a few programs that I use extensively that are only available in Windows format. Should that change, I would have no problem in replacing Windows entirely. I got into Red Hat Linux by getting a book from my local library that had the Red Hat disks included so that I could install it. It's an old version, so I plan to replace it with the latest version of Red Hat Fedora Core. DSL is still my favorite for a great looking tight package that has an amazing amout of power.:DNext Page...
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