Need OS for Old Laptop !!

[hellomcfly]

ok i have a old pentium 150mhz laptop with 32mb of ram and i think a 1.2gb HD with floppy and cd also a pcmcia linksys ethernet adapter. right now it has Windows 95 on it and for some reason it will not get on my network at home via my Linksys Router. so i was thinking about putting Windows 98se or 2000 on it after i go check the specs needed online. possibly Linux but not sure which distro and GUI to use since it is kinda old and also needs to be able to do Word Processing/Spreadsheets and Internet. what do you think my best option is besides throwing it out the window =) other than the no internet this thing run's amazingly fast for being so old.. (i would not think it was only 150mhz unless it said so)

thanks !
~McFly

 

[ericboo]

I have an old P166 laptop that is running Win98 fine. Just slow.

I tried installing Redhat 9 and there was not enough disk space with GUI.

I would not install W2K on it. Stick with Win 98 SE.

 

[hellomcfly]

ok im in 95 on the old laptop right now hooked up to my PC on the network .. now how do i share a folder on the laptop so i can drag it over the network ?? i enabled file sharing and now i dont see the option any place to share a folder

 

[spyordie007]

right-click on the folder and select properties, than take a look at sharing.

-Spy

 

[hellomcfly]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
right-click on the folder and select properties, than take a look at sharing.

-Spy

nuthing =(

 

[hellomcfly]

well now i got all the data off the drive i needed and formatted it and began to install 98. all was going good untill it started to copy the files.. and i got a

INF Parsing Error
Message SU99105
The INF file was not found (0x69)

anyone know what is wrong ? this is a Original Retail CD from Microsoft not a burned copy or any thing

 

[ericboo]

Not sure but I have had install failures before because of scratches on the CD. I copied it and then tried again and it worked fine. Worth a shot.

 

[JetsFanatic]

2000 runs better on my 233Mhz than 95 did

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: ericboo
Not sure but I have had install failures before because of scratches on the CD. I copied it and then tried again and it worked fine. Worth a shot.

Forget it with only 32MB of RAM. Windows 95, 98, or NT4 are your only win32-based options (I doubt you'll want Linux, but that would be another workable option).

 

[hellomcfly]

would there be any other reasons it is not working ??

 

[wayliff]

I think it is very simple.

Windows 98 SE