I have a really old laptop. It is a toshiba satillite pro 400cdt. 75Mhz, 40Mb. (max) RAM, and a blank 2Gb. HD.

Question

I have a really old laptop. It is a toshiba satillite pro 400cdt. 75Mhz 40Mb. (max) RAM, and a blank 2Gb. HD. formatted as FAT32 (can't reformat currently). I can dump stuff onto the harddrive. I cannot live boot from a CD, nor can I use a floppy drive. I am looking for small OS that I can just dump and run. I need it small because I need as much system resources for applications as possible. I desire some small media capabilities. I know, I'm very optimistic, and it is most likely not possible, but I need a compact OS to even try. Does anyone know what OS(s) I could use?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You can try some non-GUI based linux. It would require some efforts on your part to remember commands running the system yet Linux would be a good solution for tht system.

Answer 3

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