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Revive That Old Computer With AntiX Linux (fosspost.org)

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like it would work. I did have an adapter lying around that let me use a CF card instead of a spinning disk, so that helped.

The biggest hassle was getting the thing to start because boot from USB didn't really exist back then so I had to burn a CD and the drive on that machine is kind of flaky these days.

Though I will say that it's not exactly usable. Pretty much any website makes it grind to a halt. But it's good right up until then.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That machine was quite annoying because it refused to boot off anything other than its internal disk or an external floppy i.e. no USB sticks, despite it having a USB port. Even back then, stuff was mostly coming out on ISOs for CDs and floppies were phased out. Nowadays it'll probably require a bit of tinkering (and I'll have to find a floppy).

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Oof. Yeah, that would be tough.

I think I have a floppy or two around, but the only drive for them is on that machine and I wasn't really willing to put any money into the project.