On 09/13/2011 07:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: <> 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 i believe you mean op, james tate. tho i will make minimal comments on puppy linux and dsl. i tried both on an ibm thinkpad t380ed. i had too much trouble with puppy linux install, so i dumped it. dsl installed and worked ok, but i only had 48 meg of ram, so it did not run as well as i would have liked. when battery pack died a month later, i put it away because it was too old to get such an expensive battery for. both would be a better choice for op because current fedora is too 'heavy' for such a 'weak' box. with hardware being as old as it is, he may have problems getting drivers to work with compaq's unique chips. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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