• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Oooh, I have an old Vaio PictureBook Id like to eventually revive. Currently it’s running a very old Mandrake from that time (with KDE). Not sure if I can fit something more modern on it.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        6 months ago

        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).

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          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.