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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs
Calum:
This is a dual booting windows/Linux question. I was going to put it in 'windows', i was going to put it in 'linux' then i was going to put it in 'lounge' but i thought in the end this was the most appropriate place for it. here goes:
Hello there, I recently bought this laptop computer:
specs:
Pentium 75Mhz CPU
540Mb HDD
Colour screen
sound card
video card
Extra memory slots (not sure how much RAM it has!)
I just bought this on eBay. next my cheque will need to clear, and then i will need to wait for it to arrive, and then i will know all the specs.
My plan is as follows, and i know it's ambitious:
I want to dual boot windows 3.11 for workgroups with linux running XFce. I want both systems to be able to word process using pdfs, and i want both to be able to access the internet. I am planning to read up on ppp though, as i want to write my own simple connection scripts rather than using some kppp type 'connection manager'. I plan to use opera as the web browser for windows 3.11 and phoenix as the browser for linux, and i plan to use word 4 as the word processor in windows, and i don't know what in linux. kwrite? kword? kword does not handle the
Master of Reality:
you might want to try OpenBSD, its small and it doesnt come with any packages so you will need to install only what you need after the install.
You might wanna try runnning Windows3.11 on top of FreeDOS.
win3.11 will have to be on the first partition, when i tried it on the second partion it wouldnt work proerly.
Calum:
i think i have found a good linux distro: Basic Linux looks like the thing, when installed on the hard drive, but i will look into OpenBSD too. As for FreeDOS, how can i even get a copy that will install? did you get it to work? i tried several times with no luck.
KernelPanic:
Basic Linux is cool, I used that on a P75 before. It is based on slackware 3.1 I think?
Calum:
well it says it runs some software from slackware 3.5 and i have downloaded some stuff that it says is compatible. most of the stuff i want for a home workstation fits onto 3 floppies! of course that does not include gcc and X which are supposed to be about 12Mb in total. i haven't tried installing it yet but it looks promising from what i am reading.
browser opinion please:
phoenix or netscape 3? Of course i would rather phoenix myself, but this is the netscape browser that BasicLinux recommends and apparently it is 2MB only! compared with phoenix's 7MB that is a significant difference, and maybe i should go for that instead. I wonder if there's an old opera for linux, i seem to remember that opera 3 for win3.11 (which is what i plan to use for a browser on that side, unless anybody has any better ideas) is under 1MB!
So browser opinions please, people! :D
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]
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