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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs
Calum:
well i do want to try FreeDOS since i know it has a free C compiler and also a GUI. Master of Reality pointed me towards a 36 MB downloadable iso for freedos, so i will try it one last time. However i did just buy a second hand (but unused) copy of MSDOS6.2 with WfWG 3.11 so that's what i will probably end up using.
as for serious work, all i really want to do is install MSWord4, get a C compiler to run on there and connesct to the internet, and i want to have fun figuring out how to make it happen. So far it looks like dual booting with windows 3.11 and basiclinux1.7(slackware 3.5)...
Kintaro:
Get Dr-Dos for free from www.drdos.net (its free now caldera droped it years ago). And find yourself a copy of Deskview/X for DOS.
I would use Slackware/WindowMaker/Old Netscape/AbiWord.
Kintaro:
Better yet get FreeDos, and then get the Arachne Web Browser for dos (graphical) www.arachne.cz
Bobcat is also good: http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/bobcat.htm
More from:
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/
Hmmmmmmmmm.... What about PicoBSD, that rules!
smokey:
Although I hate to say this running XWindows on a p75 will be painful. I run linux (mandrake 8.0) on a Pentium 266mhz Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop and XWindows is only usable when in something like blackbox. Even then it is sluggish.
voidmain:
I have an old P100 Dell Laptop with 72MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive running RedHat 6.2 and KDE. I actually have two hard drives, one with Win98 on it. It runs pretty respectably, even have Netscape 6 on it. If you open more than a couple of apps it will start showing the shortage of RAM though. Blackbox would be better.
I was planning on trying to install a non-X install of RedHat 8 last night but I don't have a CD-ROM drive so I was going to do a network install using the PCMCIA boot floppy. For some reason the RH8 boot disk doesn't like my PCMCIA system. RH62 didn't have a problem with it from what I recall. At any rate, I gave up on installing 8 on it. Haven't thought of a way to get it on there yet without network. And I don't have enough hard drive to download the install image and do a hard drive install.
[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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