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post #1 of 7
4/8/06 at 11:57pm
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Help!
I have an old lappy I want to try and install Nt on.I can't seem to get it to load.I installed 95 and tried to followup with nt but it wants the drive formatted so I did.How do I get it to load from the disk.I have never had a problem installing an OS.
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post #2 of 7
4/9/06 at 2:29am
NT is really picky about hardware support

did you have NT on it before?
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post #3 of 7
4/9/06 at 10:41am
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Originally Posted by freonchill
NT is really picky about hardware support

did you have NT on it before?
No,i just want to load it on the lappy to see if it will run better than 98.I plan to sell it then.By the way it is the old tecra 500cdt I mention on here from time to time.Pent.120 with 144 meg ram.I was going to try and get it to read a pcmcia card so I could update the OS.
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post #4 of 7
4/9/06 at 7:19pm
Maybe you could try with a very light installation of win2k
It will have better hardware support and I think the hardware requirements are not much higher than NT.
I've run win2k with 128megs, so 144 should be enough for web surfind, email, etc if you don't pretend to be doing any heavy work and multitasking.


And before someone mentions, you could also try one of the user-friendly Linux distros like Ubuntu or any of the dozens around (Mandriva, Suse...)
They make wonders out of older hardware. It all depends on whether the buyer will be happy with it.
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post #5 of 7
4/9/06 at 8:32pm
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Originally Posted by barspi

And before someone mentions, you could also try one of the user-friendly Linux distros like Ubuntu or any of the dozens around (Mandriva, Suse...)

err...lol...neither of those actually. probably Vector will be a better option for older hardware. Well, possibly Mandrake 2006 w/ IceWM or FluxBox.
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post #6 of 7
4/9/06 at 8:50pm
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Originally Posted by abf
err...lol...neither of those actually. probably Vector will be a better option for older hardware. Well, possibly Mandrake 2006 w/ IceWM or FluxBox.
You are mostly right.. if you want a modern distro with the latest KDE/Gnome.. it will need a more powerful machine unless you know what you're doing...
The lighter window managers like IceWM o9r Fluxbox are cool enough.
An older distro (but not TOO old) will have the same problems unless you want to go with a pre 2.6 distro which I would not recommend.

Never head of Vector, I'm going to check it out.
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post #7 of 7
4/10/06 at 8:27am
Damn Small Linux. I have a 150Mhz Pentium with 32MB ram that runs it quite nicely, and it scales with resources so it's worth it.
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