So, today I brought home the Presario.
But, I also got an eMachine (read: piece of crap) with 192 MB RAM 400MHz Celeron, and a 4GB Hard drive.
While it should load Xubuntu, I got some very strange errors trying to load the LiveCD.
Same with all the other Debian based distros (I tried Knoppix, Dreamlinux, and Xubuntu)
I had to install MEPIS (only thing I had at the time), but it's a bit too heavy. I can't figure out how to decrease the KDE effects either.
Although I don;t have it here at home, I did have an old Pro-Tech with these specs.
132MHz Processor, 16MB RAM, and a 1 GB Hard drive. After failing miserably to install DSL via Poorman's (it wouldn't boot from CD)
Also, it had a rather weird screen color. I totally destroyed it anyways, so I'm gonna have to try getting an OS that fits on a floppy.
On a lighter note, just before I left, I managed to install DSL on another Pro-Tech Machine, which seemed slightly newer (or just had better specs).
132MHz Processor
32MB RAM
1.5GB Hard drive
I was succesfully able to install DSL on this one, however, it took me three tries (GRUB wasn't working, so I had to use LILO)
Well, that makes, uhm...
5/7 of my Computers now have Linux.
And I'm getting two more (maybe three, but don't count on it) tomorrow.
2 comments:
Question about your emachine: Is it one of the fanless Celerons? I got my hands on an ancient 400Mhz Celeron about six months ago that had no processor fan or case fan -- just a wacky fork-shaped heat sink on the processor. (Actually, I guess a lot of pre-Pentium III machines ran without fans, but this one was surprisingly quiet.)
I thought it was weird until I realized it would make a perfect media machine -- no background noise to interfere with the sound quality.
I actually toyed with the idea of booting it live (it only used a 225W power supply) and running without a hard drive, then networking in the music collection from another machine. I never did it though.
Nice blog! I enjoy reading about old hardware, and seeing how it works, or doesn't work. Cheers! ;)
Uh, I'm running an eMachine right next to me here, and it isn't too quiet (192 MB RAM, running Xubuntu), But on that note, there seems not to be a fan of any sort.
And it is a Celeron.
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