Great Free OS for older PCs !! Simple and easy choices.

Basic Linux (2 Floppies, Good Distro for an old 486)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis...ions/baslinux/

Grey Cat Linux (12 Megs)
http://www.angelfire.com/anime/db/gcl/

Vector Linux 3.2 (340 Megs)
vectorlinux.com

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:55:22 GMT, "Vijay" Enlightened the world by saying:

Got anything that will run on an 8086 laptop?


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Darrien <Darrien_Lambert@NA._.COM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93F9E25E762F2DarrienL@140.99.99.130>...

Try the Basic Linux Mentioned above.

Also search in this Treasure Trove for FREE OSs for older PCs below:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/peterdekoning/20/about.htm

Vijay

Darrien <Darrien_Lambert@NA._.COM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93F9E25E762F2DarrienL@140.99.99.130>...


Here are a few other suggestions:
http://elks.sourceforge.net/faq/FAQ-English.html

Also try searching google.com/Linux for 8086 OS and also with other key words.

Best of Luck,

Vijay

Darrien wrote:

protected mode); maybe some porting have been done on older. But this
will not be the standard Linux.

windows2.0 should work, you can find it at some abandonware sites.

CHarneyCHRIS wrote:
I can GUARANTEE you that Microsoft would press charges against the
site owner and doesn't consider Windows 2.0 to be "abandonware".

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:33:49 GMT, "Vijay" Enlightened the world by saying:

I can see why you would think that the minimun requirement of a 486 would
mean that it would run on an 8086, but despite the name, the 8086 is less
advanced than the 486.

None of these will run on an 8086. One of them may have, but their website
was shut down in hissyfit^W protest over the European software patent vote.

I don't need it to be *nix based. FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org is
supposed to run on an 8086 but I couldn't find a distribution of it that
would fit on a 720K floppy.


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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:01:20 GMT, "Vijay" Enlightened the world by saying:

That would be perfect if they had ready to run floppy images.


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CHarneyCHRIS wrote:
If non-supported software is not supposed to be available as per the
author, then use of the software is piracy. This isn't a warez group
and discussion of piracy are very much off topic. I suggest that you
take a look at this page:

http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./Page3.html

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:21:24 GMT, Darrien
<Darrien_Lambert@NA._.COM@hotmail.com> wrote:

720k floppy and nothing else - I wish you luck, you're gonna need it!

You might be able to put together a floppy set for Freedos ...
different floppies for each task, each one also containing command.com
so the system can return to command prompt.

If we're talking abaout a single (720k) floppy only, 8086 laptop, with
(if it's like one I remember), 1 Mb RAM split between 640k base and
Rom shadow or ramdisk (backed up so long as the battery is good), then
there's not really much you can do with it these days, and floppy-only
config is a lost art.

If it is the one with ramdisk capability, you can get DOS and a small
toolset in there (but you need a restore disk in case you let the
battery fade), and then use the floppy for applications and storage.


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truxx inero, sumwit kowz n' sumwit duxx on 19 Sep 2003 04:50:31 GMT:


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