Hey,
I've been given an old Compaq Presario 1200 laptop and im trying to find an os that will run on it as the Windows ME that was installed had stopped working and Compaq want me to pay for a restore CD... so Linux it is. It has a P3 at 677MHz, 64mg of ram and a 5gb HD. I couldn't believe ME would run at those specs. Anyway, so far i have tried Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux as these are the only distros that will run on such an old system. On DSL the mouse pad doesn't work and i haven't figured out how to get the Ethernet card working on either distro.
The other problem i am having is that seeing as the laptop is Compaq they have somehow "locked" the HD. Basically i can reformat it but i cant partition it or get GRUB to work, it just says OS missing on boot. So i have to keep booting with the live CD.
Does anyone have any experience with either of these distros or any distro that would run on this laptop? I want to be able to browse the web and watch videos.
Does anyone know how to get rid of Compaq's stupid HD lock thing?
Does anyone know how to get a mouse pad working in DSL with no mouse or internet?
Many thanks
Joe