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Simple OS?
Name: David Ireland Date: December 20, 2005 at 13:17:35 Pacific OS: None CPU/Ram: p2/300mhz
Comment:
Hi Everyone. I have a laptop with no hard drive. I dont really need it for any reason...just some typing. I was wondering if there are any simple (perferably free) operating systems that can be run with no hard drive. I have a cd drive and a floppy disk on the computer. Thanks.
Name: wizard-fred Date: December 20, 2005 at 13:30:30 Pacific
Reply:
FreeDOS or similar.
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Response Number 2
Name: ranchhand Date: December 20, 2005 at 14:11:44 Pacific
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Definitely Knoppix, which is a free, full-blown operating system which is booted from your CDdrive and loaded into memory.
Go to the link, use either Purdue University or U.of Wisconsin, click the http link; down load the IS0 (eng is for English language) and burn to a CD after download. If you need any pointers just Google Knoppix and you will get lots of tuts, although you probably will not need them.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 20, 2005 at 16:42:10 Pacific
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DOS 5.0 or 6.22
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 4
Name: jackbomb Date: December 20, 2005 at 20:08:35 Pacific
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Windows 1.0 or Windows 286. They could be both run off of a floppy.
Seriously though, that knoppix OS sounds like a perfect choice for your needs.
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Response Number 5
Name: jboy Date: December 20, 2005 at 20:49:37 Pacific
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Oh, I don't know - I found it (Knoppix 3.8.2) *extremely* slow on a 233MHz machine - it ran well on a P4, but the CD spin up lag was very aggravating. Pretty nifty though.
Amount(?) of RAM may be a factor as well
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Response Number 6
Name: Sp3cial Date: December 21, 2005 at 00:27:19 Pacific
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Forget Knoppix, get Damn Small Linux, it's a lot smaller and the creators even got it running (smoothly-ish) on a 386... And, as an added bonus, you can boot it of a USB flash drive (if your BIOS supports it)
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