On 09/13/2011 12:37 PM, g wrote: > if that does not work, my only other suggestion would be to put hard drive > in a box with a more current bios, install fedora live on it, reinstall in > old compaq box, to see if it will boot. You might also consider Puppy Linux, at http://www.puppylinux.org as it's designed to work with minimal hardware. I have an old laptop, mostly retired, with a P II 233 Mhz and maxed out at 96 MG of RAM that still manages to amble along with it on the rare occasions I boot it. And, unlike Knoppix and Damn Small Linux[1], the community doesn't have a built-in prejudice against installing it to your hard disk.[2] In fact, their help forum has at least two different walk-throughs for it with screen shots. [1]Please don't take this as a put down for either distro. I'm sure that they both do a great job at what they're designed to do, but they're really not intended to be installed permanently, and the users seem to be a tad inflexible about it. [2]I never seriously considered installing Knoppix because it's KDE-centric and I didn't like the looks. With DSL the attitude was "Why don't you just run it from a CD the way it was designed to be run?"[3] and the instructions for a hard disk install were done with a grudging, "Very well, if you *must.*" attitude. [3]In fact, unless my memory's worse than usual, that's an exact quote of the reply to a question in the forum about how to install it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
