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    OS needed

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by M4ss4cr3, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. M4ss4cr3

    M4ss4cr3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well here we go

    I has me a oldish Fujitsu Lifebook B-2154
    Has a touchpanel, 2 usb ports, 192MB ram in total and a 450mhz Intel celeron processor

    I have no usb drives and i dont think its even possible to boot from those anyway, So i have to use my 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor and plug the laptop HDD inside the pc

    but anyway

    I need the fastest, least hardware dependant Os in which i can install a pcmcia wireless card on browse the web and possibly watch movies on

    I've already tried installing Linux Mandriva and Windows XP professional and both fail to load

    Anyone know of an OS i can use?
     
    M4ss4cr3, Jul 31, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Windows 2000 SP4....it needs a 133MHz processor and 64GB ram, so you should be fine with it....
    I have an old deskpro with a P3 and 128MB ram, and it runs windows 2000 SP4 fine, so check it out....!! It runs realplayer, VLC and winamp just fine..!! But my desktop doesn't have a PCMCIA slot, so I am unaware of the fact if win 2000 supports PCMCIA or not, but I think it will be supported since PCMCIA has been around well before Win 2000's birth..!!
     
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  3. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Windows 2000 SP4.
     
    Thomas, Jul 31, 2008
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    notyou Notebook Deity

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    Customized to be barebones Linux installation. I had a 166MHz Pentium MMX with 84 MB of RAM. I had a full GUI and everything and it sat in about 30MB of RAM and 30MB of swap.
     
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