Hi! I'm from Portugal and here a ssd are around 39.67 us dollars / 34 euros for 240gb, and i don't know if there are lower sizes anymore... still expensive.
To install 2 OS, i would go with Windows 95 SE or 98 SE to copy files (games for me), i don't know but i'm sure that freedos will read pen drives as long they are plugged in before booting. Linux would do, but has you said, had to be a very low resources. The idea was for freedos to be the main OS, but i will take in mind your recommendation. João On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:17 AM dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:15 PM Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to > windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode. > > Win10 needs 4GB RAM *minimum*. The sweet spot is 6GB. No surprise > performance was poor. > > > I was thinking of installing Linux Xubuntu for it's low resources. > > I did that on an ancient notebook that had a whopping *256MB* RAM. > Xubuntu would install, but performance left a lot to be desired. > Posters on the Ubuntu list said Ubuntu had a steadily increasing idea > of what "low end" was, and that too much Gnome had crept into XFCE. > What I wound up doing was following their suggestions and installing > from the Linux Minimal CD. That gave me a working command line Linux > installation, with networking and video. From there I could install > apt-get, and DL specific packages. I used Lxde as the lowest resource > GUI desktop, and Lxde brought along Xorg. I installed to an ext4 file > system. The result actually ran, though it wasn't anything you would > call fast. > > The ancient notebook came to me with WinXP SP2. XP wants 512MB > RAM minimum. I reformatted, repartitioned, installed Win2K Pro (which > would sort of run in 256MB RAM,) two flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS, > multi booting under Grub2. Win2K was on an NTFS slice, Linux was on > ext4, and FreeDOS was on FAT32. It was mostly an experiment to see > what performance I could wring out of ancient hardware *without* > throwing money at it. I haven't booted it in a long time. > > > A friend of my IT guy "is nagging" me a year now to get an ssd, so i was > thinking get one ssd 240, stick it to eeepc and install freedos. > > You don't even need 240. I got a 120GB budget SSD from my preferred > retailer for $20 US. The intended use is in another old notebook > device replacing the HD. > > > My issues are: > > > > 1 - Will freedos work well with atom cpu > > Sure. The Atom CPU is an Intel x86 design, and FreeDOS will run on > any of them. (Getting it to *boot* is another matter unrelated to the > CPU.) > > > 2 - Can freedos detect 2Gb of ram > > I believe so, but for FreeDOS, how much do you *care*? > > FreeDOS will use 640K as user RAM where it and your programs will load > and run. With EMS/XMS, you may be able to use RAM beyond 1MB for > things like disk cache and RAMdisk. > > > The idea is to carry the eeepc with me to play and to also to show my 7 > year old girlfriend nephew the games I played back in 1988 and forward. > > I'd install a low resource requirement version of Linux on ext4, carve > out a separate FAT partition for FreeDOS, and multi-boot. > > I wouldn't try to make FreeDOS the primary OS. > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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