Dumpster diving for a semi-working laptop

psychotic_mechanic · Post by **psychotic_mechanic** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:26 am

I found the great-grandpappy of my laptop near a dumpster, it's a Toshiba Satellite 200CS. It asks for a system disk afetr it runs a memory check, but I don't have a windows 95 boot disk (I assume that's what it needs because it has windows 95 stickers on it) I did find windows 3.1 on floppies and a 98 boot disk while digging through my boxes of crap though.

How hard would it be to install Linux on this thing? I do have some ubuntu disks around here. It would be easier if it had a CD-ROM or USB, I guess it is time to hit up ebay. I guess I could also try to get windows running, does anyone know where I can get a 95 boot disk?

I'm trying to turn this into a toddler toy, my 13 month old likes to play with anything with buttons. (I woonder where he got that from)

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:35 am

http://www.allbootdisks.com/
Great site, I've used it many a time before. It even has Linux boot disks!

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:06 pm

The windows 95 stickers only mean that it originally shipped with Windows 95 installed. You can install just about any windows version on it, provided you can find drivers.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:07 pm

or linux i have a laptop similer to that it runs linux now shipped with windows

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:28 pm

thank you Madness for yo chanfing your avatar

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:12 pm

What linux could I put only on floppys?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:24 pm

Scroll down and you'll see the small and floppy distros

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:50 pm

Thanks! Now where can I get drivers for Redhat 9? I'm searching and not finding.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:30 pm

will Win4lin work on DSL (Damn small linux)?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:40 pm

Harshboy wrote:will Win4lin work on DSL (Damn small linux)?

Should or you can try Wine. Why what programs you planning to run?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:42 pm

just wanna try windows on my upgraded ram xbox...thats all. I might try Wine.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:25 pm

You could try Menuet, its a live floppy disk OS. I've been meaning to check it out, but this computer doesnt have a floppy, and I dont trust this old piece of crap I have thats fossilized in dust.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:56 pm

Harshboy wrote:just wanna try windows on my upgraded ram xbox...thats all. I might try Wine.

Nice, is that a Friendly Tech version? I really want to put Xebian on mine.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:25 pm

i just put windowsw 95 on my xbox...it works ok at decent speeds (when 95 was released anyway) If you want to learn how just do a google search. You must have the 95 install disk or a 95.iso to install.

Post by **gannon** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:26 pm

Harshboy wrote:just wanna try windows on my upgraded ram xbox...thats all. I might try Wine.

Wine won't run windows, only some windows programs. If you want windows on your modded xbox (assuming you can't just install it), use VMWare