On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Mercury Rising <mercuryrising11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi,I got so tired of windows problems - viruses, screen - computer freezes, I just stuck in a Linux for non-geeks CD and loaded it. It wiped my hard drive as expected, but I kept getting an error near the end of the install. A friend gave me another Linux load, but it give me an error saying my BIOS was 1997 and I needed a a 2000 BIOS or better. The machine has a Pentium 3 with 550 MHz CPU with over 700 Megs memory but a small hard drive of just 10 Gigs with a swapable drive in pull out bay with a grab bar. I was using Windows XP Pro 2000 for OS. I installed a USB 2.0 on it that worked most of the time. I have done a lot of Google searches to see if I could find Linux and a GUI that would be as easy as a Mac or XP environment for a 1997 BIOS machine.Any ideas on a good Linux load for such an old machine? With the XP I could print to a office jet 7410 all-in-one printer, scanner fax with no problems.Browsing the Internet was ok, but video - youtube was mostly non-worable - mostly too slow.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 / i386 on a 12 y/o Dell Inspiron 7000 (PII366/256MB) notebook without any issue.
I also tested Fedora 11 on this machine and it worked just fine. (Somewhat slower than CentOS, so I decided to stay with CentOS)
At least in my case, the BIOS date is not an issue.
- Gilboa
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