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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 16th, 2007

You could try antiX on an older computer. It runs well on 128 Mb of ram. It has synaptic package manager. AntiX is a stripped down re-mastered version of the newest mepis. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5. It has a gui. Uses fluxbox instead of kde but you can also use icewm if you like a windows type desktop. You can get antiX at distrowatch. You can find listed there under mepis. Download the live cd and try it on your older computer.
Also go into the bios of the of the pionex and check to see that it is able to boot from cd. You may need to check the box beside cdrom in bios to get it to boot. I use SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and I also use antiX rc5. AntiX is sooo fast and it is just great fun to use. I actually use antiX more than anything 'cept when I want to show beryl. Then I have to boot mepis or pclinuxos.

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 16th, 2007

If it cant boot from the cd you can always do a debian netinstall from floppy

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 16th, 2007

Or you could install this

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 16th, 2007

that program is buggy in my experience

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 23rd, 2007

What the heck does it do? It's like 317KB!

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 23rd, 2007

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots/

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 23rd, 2007

Yeah I just saw that. Can you keep your XP/Vista install on the hard drive as well? Like can it partition?

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Re: I am at a loss for which to choose

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Jun 23rd, 2007

>Can you keep your XP/Vista install on the hard drive as well? Like can it partition?
Well, the only partitioner as far as I can see is within the Debian installer, like it always is. And that one can't non-destructively shrink the Windows partition, so if you don't have any free space on your hard drive that isn't taken up by partitions, you'll have to redo everything. Alternatively, you could use a LiveCD like Ubuntu, which has GParted/QTParted, and those can dynamically resize your NTFS partitions.

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