Can someone help me out? I have an old pentium 1 that I have had sitting with windblows 95 on it. I formatted the HD and have no idea where to go from there. A friend recommended an older version of Linux\ Puppy linux but at this point I have no clue what to do from here. I have never had linux on any of my machines, yet I have used it and like the OS. My comp is having issues booting from cd-rom and wants to boot from floppy. I changed settings in the BIOS but the damb thing still wont work. Any suggestions? Please help! Thanx!

ALSO, I READ SOME FORUMS RECOMMENDING DSL LINUX. I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO BROWSE THE WEB AND THATS ABOUT IT.

If you have an older P1 I doubt it could boot to a CD, You would need a distro that offers a floppy that tells the computer enough to boot from a cd. To make things worse older CD drives can't read cd-r's and even less cd-rw's. Most of the CD's can be burned and tested on newer systems as they are what are called live cd's. They boot to a cd and leave the original os intact unless you bork it. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

Have a look at Deli Linux...it's designed speficially for old hardware: http://www.delilinux.org/ http://www.delilinux.org/wiki/doku....

Thanks for the replies. I thought I would have a problem with the CD-Rom not reading the CD-R's. That creates a little bit of an issue. I hope I can figure this one out. At the same time I am going to try and pull it together somehow to possibly get deli linux on the machine. I really don't want to have to revert back to windblows. Hopefully something will work. Patience is a virtue... Dang, I wish I had a little.

"I thought I would have a problem with the CD-Rom not reading the CD-R's" You may or may not. See the 2nd link above.

Sweet! I think that might work. I will try this afternoon. Thanks again!