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Topic: will it work on my laptop,running on windows 3.01?, Old NEC laptop, 16mb ram and 300mb hd< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,05:02 QUOTE
Need help, my laptop is really old, should this work on my laptop, i have no cd drive no usb only zip disk,
16 mb RAM
no graphics card
windows 3.01
800 by 600px screen
400 or 300mb hard drive
so will it work?
you see, i hate windows that old, and i love linux.
i dont know any code or special language basically newbie, so i need a straighforward easy answer?
thanks
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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,09:31 QUOTE
If it is a 486 DX or better it should work (it doesn't work with 486SX). With only 16 MB you probably should do a hard disk install. I haven't actually done the following, but I think it should work: Create a 60 MB ms-dos partition (leaving the rest blank) and install dos. Then follow the instructions on http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install and finally do a hard disk install.
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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,21:03 QUOTE
what is a 486 dx?
i have 486mhz processor but no intel.
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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,23:20 QUOTE
I kind of doubt that you have a 486MHz processor looking at the other specs you've provided.   It's probably either a 486sx or 486dx.486dx
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Posted: Mar. 31 2006,11:01 QUOTE
Download tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/, http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/tomsrtbt/), create the diskette and boot with it, and finally issue the following command to get info about your processor:
more /proc/cpuinfo
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