On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:19:35 +0200 "0...@caiway.net" <0...@caiway.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 > Davide Lombardo <carel...@live.it> wrote: > > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > > GPU: RIVA TNT-2 > > HARDISK: 10 GB > > FLOPPY DISK DRIVE > > MODEM 56K > > In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today... > > Do you think I can install something different than the already > > installed WIN98 system ? > > You could try some of those old floppy distros: > > https://linuxmuseum.freedombox.rocks/FloppyDistros/ > > I don't think they have an installer to harddisk I have very fond and vivid memories of my first experience with linux: BasLinux, booted from floppies and run from a ramdisk, on a typical system with Windows installed. I still remember the electric thrill of typing an 'insmod' command for the ethernet driver module, and then (I suppose after some sort of dhcp invocation) finding myself with a fully working networking connection - amazing! I don't remember what version I used, but the current version, 3.50, boots from a couple of floppies, and requires a 386 and 12 MB of ram. It provides various options for a GUI, and it can be installed to a hard drive: https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ Celejar
