best OS for 4.86 ....

[GanglyLamb]

okay ive got an old 4.86 with a little bit of extra memory ....
when i got it win 95 was installed on it but the comp jammed everytime when it booted so
Now, which type of OS is the best for such a comp, with that i mean an OS who doesnt eats memory so i can still do something on the comp.....

i was thinking of linux version mandrake 8.0
suggestions are welcome.....

[frednick]

llo i want to ask something about this subject too. Does somebody know a good linux version for almost the same pc as gangly, but a version that i can install with disks only? Cause i don't get the ****ing drivers installed who are needed for my cdrom...

[Travis Dane]

DOS, or Windows 3.11 but i can't really recommand that cruddy
windows.

[frednick]

Originally posted by Travis Dane
DOS, or Windows 3.11 but i can't really recommand that cruddy
windows.
Yes i've tried both, dos is on the boot disk, but i can't install win 3.11 cause he says my DOS is too old...so i installed a version of dos(i always boot with a win95 boot disk), but then he sais that he couldn't do that, don't ask me why.
I've tried to install the drivers of my backpack cd-rom(parallellport) but the drivers are on drive C, and the dos version that's on my startup disk won't detect the cd-rom drive. It's just not in my Bios. How do i get it in there?

[Travis Dane]

I assume he din't just say 'go fook yourself' when i couldn't
install, i had to give a hint! You could try installing Windows 3.1

[GanglyLamb]

hmmm so anyone with a good OS for my old 4.86 ?? :cool:

[Travis Dane]

What's wrong with DOS?

d05 0wNz0r y00

[Vber]

Lol, install some *nix system, hmm, linux slackware will be fine (in text mode, sure)

[GanglyLamb]

<<what wrong with dos??
Well not that i dont know the dos commands BUT well blabla...
no let me put it this way wich takes in the most CPU win 95 or win 98 because i want a OS with some basic interface but also an OS who doesnt eats memory .....

::edit::
and yeh dos has a basic interface and doesnt eats memory but i dont wont DOS as OS
::edit::

[damonbrinkley]

I'm sure Linux would run on that as long as you don't try to run X-Windows....if you decide to try X then I wouldn't consider GNOME or KDE a viable option. There's probably some slimmed-down distros out there to run on really old systems, just check out www.distrowatch.com or search google for one.

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by GanglyLamb
[Bi want a OS with some basic interface[/B]

How about writing one yourself?:)

[Vber]

Originally posted by damonbrinkley
I'm sure Linux would run on that as long as you don't try to run X-Windows....if you decide to try X then I wouldn't consider GNOME or KDE a viable option. There's probably some slimmed-down distros out there to run on really old systems, just check out www.distrowatch.com or search google for one.

Slack have a special edition to old computers :)
www.slackware.org

[ober]

I'd say any version of linux, however don't expect a 486 to run a graphical interface at ALL. at least anything that was put out in the past 2 years or so. I have a P266 that had problems running Mandrake 7.2 graphically. The command line stuff should work, however, I'm doubting you'll even have a big enough HD to install a recent distro if you're running a 486.

[Vber]

ober5861 I'd say any version of linux, however don't expect a 486 to run a graphical interface at ALL


Hmm, with rh psyche he wont be able to startx :)


I'm doubting you'll even have a big enough HD to install a recent distro if you're running a 486.


You're right, but he can install just some packs of slack or even if it's needed, zip-slack :)

[GanglyLamb]

leme just give the specs .... 66 Mhertz i think 32 Mb ram ..... or at least he detected last boot 20 Mb and it has an HD of 6 gig if im not mistaken the motherboard is still the same but i think someone gave it a second life by adding some extras

ill check out the linux slackware ...but first ill try to run mandrake (cuz thats alrdy on cd) .... ill c what im going to do with it thx anyway guys (||girls)

[Vber]

Hmm, dont forget, I think you'll not be able to run a full X server.
And dont install some dumb packages that you wont need.

Good luck.

[frednick]

Originally posted by Salem
Is this the type of CDROM drive which plugs into the soundcard?

No, It's a backpack sound device, my father bought this one veryyy long ago :d, but it's a cd-rom device with a sound card in it. So i connect the cd-rom with the parallel connection cable, and my printer is connected with the cd-rom. on the back of the cd-rom device are the plugs like on a sound card. It's a multifunctional cdrom device uh ;)

[frednick]

Well now i have acces to my cd-rom drive...finally! So i start reading my win95 setup cdrom, i open setup.exe and then he say that the setup is going to 'control' te whole pc, so i enter, but then it's finito. He does nothing anymore. Does somebody know now what to do? thx in advance

[codingmaster]

Try Gentoo Linux or Slackware

www.gentoo.org
www.slackware.org
www.linuxiso.org

[frenchfry164]

I have an old 33 MHz 486 with 19 MB RAM that used to run Win95. It ran it pretty steady too, just took a while to start ( > 4 mins) but once it was up, it hardly ever locked up. In fact, it locked up less than my newer comp did back when it had Win98 on it (thank god I got XP now, no lockups EVER).

[Tommaso]

Windows 95 should run perfectly for that system. That was the computers that were around when Windows 95 came out. I have a 386 that runs Windows 95 perfectly - even fast I could almost say. With 32 megs ram you could even run Windows 98, but that would be slow. I would stick to 95, it's the best for your old (but still useful computer).

[Vber]

Originally posted by Tommaso
Windows 95 should run perfectly for that system. That was the computers that were around when Windows 95 came out. I have a 386 that runs Windows 95 perfectly - even fast I could almost say. With 32 megs ram you could even run Windows 98, but that would be slow. I would stick to 95, it's the best for your old (but still useful computer).

Right, I even runned win98 in a 486 with 16megs, and it was fast.
But just like you said win95 is the best windows for this machine.

[GanglyLamb]

as soon as tha comp is workin all first install win 95 ...
well ill just c what what the comp's capable of

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by Vber
But just like you said win95 is the best windows for this machine.

Our 486 seems to object to that stament because it just won't
respond anymore in the Win95 setup:( .
But then again, We did have one of the slowest 486 and only
8MB's of RAM.