Recent content by Polymorphic

there is no reason for you to uninstall the linux system, and there is no reason you can't use partitions created with PM. all you have to do is make sure there is a proper boot option for the windows partition. but just selecting "boot dos" is NOT enough! you must make sure you specify which...

It really depends on what you consider "old" for a well-tuned linux system, 366MHz is plenty - even for a modern distro. Apart from the latest from SuSE/Novell or Fedora/RedHat, anything modern would run great (of course gentoo would take a lil while for a full compile ; ) The P1 machine is...

if you have problems with a modern distro, you can still obtain copies of Slackware-3.3 (if you have no CD-ROM), or Slackware-4.0 if you do have an optical drive. those may be a little easier with memory requirements than a modern distro, and many-a-machine has needed 3.3 for its floppy-based...

if you have ever actually run Solaris, most would say to go linux (as would I). solaris can be a complete PITA to get running properly, and once running, getting native development packages can be quite expensive (think thousands for sun's compiler suite and toolchain). sure, you can use GCC...

color.gz is for older slackware installs. the newer system uses a larger rootdisk that needs to be broken up into 2 1.44 meg images, install.1 and install.2. color.gz is still used as a whole, but only in the boot-cd's initial rootdisk (initrd) just write your kernel to one floppy, install.1 to...

slow? i often don't find it to be that - what were you running it on? sound seems to work a little better in linux thatn in windows. i had some difficulty when i ran it under XP on the same hardware, but it works just fine under linux on my box. havn't tried scanners so i can't honestly say on...

the main problem i have with fc3 is the removal of all copyrighted/non-free software, such as mp3 playback librarties and just about every video playback format. to get a system good for playing multimedia, it will take you many hours of hunting down libraries and dependancies. other than that...

You can probably get away with running Deb and RH on a P100 still, but its a dog. Most likely better options for that hardware include FreeBSD, Slackware, Gentoo (after all that compilation, or if you rebuild the packages for the P100 (watch your CFLAGS! haha - theres only about 80 pages about...

I can't say anything about 5 but 4.5.2 runs GREAT on my setup. I run it on a Slackware box (check my sig) and it hosts Slackware, FreeBSD, XP, Solaris and am working on hacking my install disks for AT&T SVR4 2.1a to install in it - never had any virtualization software able to install this one)...

http://www.frsshmeat.net/ http://www.sf.net/ http://www.google.com/linux/ I would also recomment Slackware. Red Hat has an easier learning curve at first, but in my experience is far too heavily based on GUI configuration tools (these can be bypassed but manual editiing of most config files...

From experience I can say that is absolutely true. The main thing you need, especially where you have a specific requirement (to run off old hardware), all you need is a good net connection, a good distro to base off of, of which there are many many options, and a good toolchain (gcc, make...

is your rootdisk larger than 1.4MB? it may beed to be sliced up with dd to multiple disks... infact as i recall its not install.1...install.x

trust me it works ive been a senior tech for several years and have done this countless times. its amazing the data you can recover without any special software with that technique. the main thing to be sure of is that you done get any condensation on the electronics. --Poly ps - hell iv...

ok, well if it's a socket 2 then the thing is its not really a pentium machine. its an old 486sx, dx or dx2 machine that was upgraded with a first generation overdrive dx4 or overdrive pentium chip. so the first matter of business is to remove the hard drive and read the top label. if it does...

socket 2? you mean socket 7? do you know if it's an ide hard drive? does it show up in the machines bios?