What OS would fit on a 1.27GB HDD?

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July 28th, 2003, 09:47 PM
Fuelm@n

What OS would fit on a 1.27GB HDD?

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July 28th, 2003, 09:56 PM
wonderinguy34

Win98 requires "between 125 and 355MB of free hard drive space"
July 28th, 2003, 09:57 PM
carltonyuk

You could get Win 98SE on there although it doesn't leave much room for much else. My first pc had a 1.6gb hdd and i managed ok. You just have to be choosy what else you put on there that's all. Good luck. :D
July 28th, 2003, 09:57 PM
photolady

Windows 98FE will. So will Windows95.
July 28th, 2003, 09:58 PM
carltonyuk

Great minds think alike wnderinguy and Photolady. LOL
July 28th, 2003, 10:05 PM
Fuelm@n

Not W95, how about Linux? This HDD has no jumpers on it so I'm guessing it's a Master. Would that be correct? How about Windows ME, would that fit?

I have Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP Pro, & Lindows OS2.

Thanks,
July 28th, 2003, 11:12 PM
Train

Best post what brand and model. May need to find info on it, As some of them were set for Cable select also. Or had hidden /dang small jumpers where you missed them.
July 28th, 2003, 11:17 PM
Fuelm@n

I'll post the model tomorrow and maybe with an image. The brand is a Samsung is all I know right now. The HDD's outside in a case at the moment.
July 28th, 2003, 11:21 PM
Train

Quote:

Originally posted by Fuelm@n
I'll post the model tomorrow and maybe with an image. The brand is a Samsung is all I know right now. The HDD's outside in a case at the moment.

Samsung works good for me and that does make for rough reading of the data :p
July 29th, 2003, 01:51 AM
NoBoB

My museum-candidate laptop (IBM Thinkpad 380D, P150MMX, 80MB) has a 2GB factory harddrive, and it's happily running Win2000 SP2 with Office 2000, with plenty of room to spare. I'd go so far as to say it runs better now with Win2000 than it ever did.
July 29th, 2003, 05:56 AM
jenae

Hi I would be more worried about Ram then anything else. My suggestion is a lean version of 2k best by far.
July 29th, 2003, 01:24 PM
SuperSparks

A bare bones install of Win2000 is about 650Mb, and I'm with NoBob and jenae. Anything's better than W98.
July 29th, 2003, 01:41 PM
photolady

This 2gb machine I have now would be a problem with win2000 as it only has 32mb ram that's the only reason I have win98 on mine.

So I'm with jenae, check RAM also.
July 29th, 2003, 02:02 PM
DuaneB

The required disk space for Windows ME is 295 MB with required Memory of 32 MB. Also, you need an Intel Pentium processor with a processor speed of 150 MHz.
July 29th, 2003, 02:19 PM
Fuelm@n

Thanks everyone for yalls suggestions, I agree that anything would be better than W98!:D I just may go with 98 though, it may have me to respond more in the 98 forum here.:p

I am interested in Linux, what the best Linux based OS out there? SuperSpark, you refereed to one several months back that looked interesting, what was the name of it? I can't remember, just that you were using it.

Thanks again....
July 29th, 2003, 02:48 PM
SuperSparks

Hi Fuelm@n,

I downloaded LycorisLX, but then the guys on the Linux forum changed my mind. I have been intending to download RedHat 9, I just haven't had a chance to get round to it, so I've put the Linux project on hold for a while.

I did also download Knoppix, which fits on a single bootable CD. Again I haven't had much of a chance to play with it, but it can be a lifesaver - I suggested it to a guy on the 2000 or XP Forum that he might be able to recover some files from a corrupt NTFS partition and it worked perfectly. If you've got a broadband connection it's worth the download, just in case:

http://www.knoppix.org/
July 29th, 2003, 05:21 PM
dougj

I'm just now diving into the Linux pool and am pleased with the Mandrake v9.1 distro. Chose Mandrake partly because someone recommended it and partly cuz I couldn't get on the RedHat site to DL the ISO files. Its incredibly modular, so you can install just what you want/need, making the drive size less of an issue. I've heard that if you're willing to forgo the GUI, you can run it from a floppy. Which is nice, cuz if you did run this truly free software from a floppy, you could even "copy that floppy!" :D
July 29th, 2003, 10:36 PM
Spooky Man G

NOOOO!!!!! not that again! I just got done removing that! Anyway, i have an old computer 486/80mhz and a 300 mb HDD. How do I go about this Linux install from step one. such as where to obtain it. how to put it on my other computer, etc.
July 29th, 2003, 10:53 PM
wonderinguy34

Quote:

Originally posted by dougj
I'm just now diving into the Linux pool and am pleased with the Mandrake v9.1 distro. Chose Mandrake partly because someone recommended it and partly cuz I couldn't get on the RedHat site to DL the ISO files. Its incredibly modular, so you can install just what you want/need, making the drive size less of an issue. I've heard that if you're willing to forgo the GUI, you can run it from a floppy. Which is nice, cuz if you did run this truly free software from a floppy, you could even "copy that floppy!" :D

Haven't D/L Mandrake 9.1 ,but v8 is about 1gb for a basic install,I wouldn't recommend Mandrake for a 1.2GB HD.
July 30th, 2003, 02:13 AM
ecrosson

LINUX; Why not use the Red Hat version, it has been around for a long time, and is very stable too. It will not even need half of that drive space.
July 30th, 2003, 05:31 AM
104456

http://www.linuxiso.org/ has links to most available distros along with an Architetural list. Also http://lwn.net/Articles/32058/ for low end PCs.

Have you thought about making it either a firewall or router ?

http://www.smoothwall.org/
http://www.e-smith.org/downloads/
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/