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Plenty of distros to choose from, most are pretty easy to get going, and installing folding is pretty well a snap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:48 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] NT4 ?. > > NT4 is a bust! That's $25 down the drain. I couldn't install > my NIC driver because it won't detect or install. The 3com > NIC detect utility doesn't see the PCI bus only ISA (1997 HP > Vectra slot 1 PII/LX chipset with both interfaces side by > side on a riser card). > > Ati doesn't have an NT4 driver for my Radeon 9200se (VGA 800X600X16 > only) and neither x86 version of [EMAIL PROTECTED] will install > successfully same as my experience with Win95. NT4/SP6 runs > fine now and its a simple matter to jump back and forth > between machines with my KVM switch but without Ethernet its > crippled. Gonna have to scrub and install something else. > Anybody have a copy of Win98se or WinME for sale cheap? > > Chris, just how hard would it be to install Linux, set up an > Ethernet connection to my WinXP PC's and get [EMAIL PROTECTED] up > and running in minimal time (I only know Windoze and DOS)? > > I just want to fold, network and store drive images on this > old thing without putting to much more cash or time into it. > Any suggestions appreciated. @:)> > > Chris Reeves wrote: > > WindowsME would see the drive. > > So would say, Mandrake2006.. Now free to download Or > LinspireFree Or > > Win98.. > > > > > > CW > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------ > > ---------- > > FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! > > Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter > > http://mail.giantcompany.com > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske > >>Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:18 PM > >>To: The Hardware List > >>Subject: Re: [H] NT4 ?. > >> > >>8 gigs is what the setup app created. Thanks for the info. @:)> > >> > >>JRS wrote: > >> > >>>You said less than 8 gig, I could be wrong, but I thought > >> > >>NT4 had to > >> > >>>be on less than a 4 gig partition for the OS? > >>> > >>>Did you try one that small?? :) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>>I have this old PII 333 MHz 'puter that I'm trying to get up and > >>>>>running for [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an old copy of NT4 I picked > >> > >>up locally. > >> > >>>>>The original 1997 hardrive died and I replaced it with a Promise > >>>>>ATA100 controller and a WD 800JB. NT won't install despite > >> > >>repeated > >> > >>>>>efforts even on a <8 gig C: partition. It partitions > Drive C just > >>>>>fine but chokes on the total size of the drive and won't go any > >>>>>further (neither NTFS or FAT file system makes any > difference). I > >>>>>looked for a method of slipstreaming SP6 into it thinking > >> > >>that would > >> > >>>>>upgrade it's ability to deal with modern sized disks but > >> > >>apparently > >> > >>>>>that's not possible pre-Win2K. Does anybody have any ideas > >> > >>on how I > >> > >>>>>might get this old OS installed on this old PC with a > >> > >>modern drive so > >> > >>>>>I can give it a new reason to live? Hate to spend $ on the > >> > >>overpriced > >> > >>>>>WinXP if I can help it. TIA and Happy Thanksgiving! @:)> > >> > > > > > > >
