Nic
February 8, 2005, 10:56pm
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But this one isnt very good Pentium 3 400Mhz with 32 mb of ram. But nt bad for nothing but anyway. I found my windows 2000 disc and installed it but then after using it for a while it came up this is an evaluation copy of windows and will shut down in 1 hr. I’ve downloaded linux and i’m assuming that it will be okay to put on this laptop??
EDIT: It also only has a 4gb hard drive
Big_B
February 8, 2005, 11:14pm
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Oh yeah. Linux will run fine on that, and, unless you have to stay with a Windows OS, it’d be a better choice. Win2k is a nice OS, but it’ll crawl on that system.
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:18pm
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I’ve noticed would mandrake do or could u suggest something user friendly but smaller??
Cobind is very light and easy to install
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:24pm
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How about use tho?? I’ve never used linux b4
use is very easy and simple. If I was gonna set up a PC for my grandma Cobind would be on it
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:32pm
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Lol okay well thanks for the recommendation i’ll download it now
I’ve never tried anything except windows. May try linux at some point
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:34pm
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neither have i but tonight ive dowloaded two linuxs - gunna install mandrake on my pc tomoz and cobind on my test laptop
I wouldn’t install mandrake on a laptop, a usual install with it is around 1.3GB for me
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:36pm
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yeh im putting cobind on the laptop and mandrake on the pc
Nic
February 8, 2005, 11:37pm
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I will do - I think i’m gunna like linux. Its free and I like free things.
Vector Linux reportedly runs faster on a P1~133 w/32mb RAM than Windows XP does on a P3~800MHz w/128mb RAM. Might wanna give that a whirl. :good:
Nic
February 9, 2005, 4:55pm
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Kk thanks - Also I downloaded Cobind and just copied to disc but it wouldnt boot Is there a certain way to copy it to disc??
Addis
February 9, 2005, 5:07pm
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Are you sure you downloaded the ISO?
Nic
February 9, 2005, 5:15pm
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lol yup its deffinately a .iso
EDIT: its okay i copied another disc and it worked must of been a faulty disc