Hi Šimon Dobeš, > Almost I forgot. > If I will install FreeDOS on that pentium PC that have about 60 GB of > Hard Disk. May I been able to install some Windows OS? (e.g. Windows 95, > 98, 2000)
You can even install a current Linux on 60 GB without problems, but many modern apps will run very slowly because you only have 256 MB RAM. Note that after 2018, some Linux versions started to require 64-bit processors and others require at least a processor with MMX or SSE. As you can see here, a number of special Linux distributions specifically select lightweight components to run WELL on a computer which does not have much RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_Linux_distribution For example Puppy Linux from 2017 is listed as "256 MB RAM, download size 234 MB". Wikipedia writes that Windows 2000 needs at least a Pentium with free 1 GB harddisk space and 32 MB RAM, but recommends 128 MB RAM and 5 GB harddisk space. So that easily works and of course also older Windows 95 or 98. However, they all have not received updates for decades any most modern apps will not work on ancient Windows versions. So you will not have a lot of fun with old Windows. And it easily gets hacked or infected by computer viruses because of the missing security updates. So have fun with FreeDOS and Linux instead :-) Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
