Old laptop, need an OS!

WorldIndustries! · Post by **WorldIndustries!** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:23 am

Yesterday, my friend gave me this OLD "Zenith Z-Note 425Ln+" laptop. Must be a 386 or 486, hard drive is 200 megs.

Aaaaanyway. Could anyone tell me an okay OS to put on this? It only has a floppy drive.

Thanks for any suggestions.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:37 am

hehehe

You're gonna have fun with that.. Be best fo find a copy of DOS then a copy of Win95 on Floppy.. Maybe Win98, depends on your RAM..

You would really need to throw another HD in it though.. I have a few 2gb lappy HDs laying around..

eGo

WorldIndustries! · Post by **WorldIndustries!** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:59 am

Haha. Yeah, Windows would work. I think this thing has 16 megs of ram. Anyone know of any SMALL linux distros with GUIs?

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:27 pm

win 3.1 i have the floppys archived

WorldIndustries! · Post by **WorldIndustries!** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:20 pm

Oops. Nevermind. It has FOUR megs of RAM. I installed 95, works fine. Might install DamnSmallLinux soon, see how that works.

wpublic · Post by **wpublic** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:01 pm

puppy linux is pretty cool. i have it on a usb flash drive.

-from the site-

* Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
* Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
* Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need for a hard drive.
* Booting from USB, Puppy will greatly minimise writes, to extend the life of Flash devices indefinitely.
* Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
* Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
* Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use.
* Puppy will just work, no hassles.
* Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:23 pm