I'm pretty sure you have to use Nero to burn the image rather then just copy and pasting it.
Okay I have an old Coastline CM Micro computer. This piece of 5hit is like from 1990 . Well I can't boot up knoppix from cd-rom, only from c: drive and a:drive. I d-loaded knoppix and burned it to a c.d. I don't know if I have to use nero to burn it to a c.d I just copied and pasted, then burned. I know you've all answered this question but mine is different. Its on an old a$$ computer. Does anybody know what I can do?
I'm pretty sure you have to use Nero to burn the image rather then just copy and pasting it.
Originally Posted by Jerunk
i do not think knoppix can run on such an old machine.
I have an old machine too . A pentium1 with 34ram THe only linux distro i could run on it was damn small linux which is only 50mb
Is it worth it to just install small linux? Cause i need an O.S cause when I start it up it says missing O.S. so i dont know what to do. I dont have like 200 floppys to boot it up from the floppy drive I only have like about 20 floppys. What *nix based system can I actually run in an old computer?
Here's a howto for burning iso's with Nero: http://members.home.nl/lsnoek/iso.htm
I can't say if it's worth while installing a minimalist linux. It depends on what you want from it. Most 1-floppy linuxes seem to be routers/firewalls, and you won't get a nice desktop with lots of goodies unless you have the ram. I'd say 128 MB for KDE but others may argue
If you have 64 MB go with Fluxbox or IceWM.
Here's some distros including floppy based ones: http://www.linuxbasis.com/distributions.html
Debian. And you only need a few flopies to install it. Now realize that this isn't a windows installer but it's also not that hard. Go to debian.org and look at the floppy images for i386. It takes me about 1 1/2 hours to install Debian via floppy on an old Compaq.Originally Posted by kb
go for damn small linux. it has a browser (glinks), few texteditors (vim, emacs), xmms (winamplike), mail (sylpheed)...
more info on their homepage:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
it requires 64M ram for graphical. and 16 for textmode.
here is a interestng thing for you (486 33Mhz with 16 M ram)
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html
On The Screen Savers, they mentioned Menuet, which is written in assembly language and fits on a floppy. It's not *nix, but it might work for you. http://www.menuetos.org/Originally Posted by kb
JD
I think he should look into using Minix.
tomsrtbt moved to hdd and reconfigured would work. or floppix + new kernel with hdd support...
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