What computer/OS are you using?

[Krizonar]

But. I. don't. know. why.

Whyyyyyy would anybody send away for a CDR when they could just download it and have instant (or, helluva lot quicker than snail-mail) gratification?! : \

and quoth the Macbook Air

"lol, archaic disc media"


/had to


Still using 10.6, 10.4 and 0.6.

[svx]

What OS should I install on random new computer that I have?

It's for random friends who neglect their laptops... Hmm... Win7? I'd rather have something non-NT so that it can play older DOS games...

Decisions, decisions!

I wound up using Windows 98 SE... Ahh, fun!

Installation went like this:

1. Booted the CD (sigh of relief when I realized the computer doesn't have a DVD drive :p)
2. Prompted for CDROM support or not... svx acted INSTANTANEOUSLY and took the correct choice
3. DOS prompt popped up
4. Stared at screen
5. A:\> dir
6. A:\> fdisk
7. Hard drive seemed oddly small... Thinking... thinking...
8. Rummaged through desk drawer, found Linux on a thumb drive! Rebooted into it (suprised BIOS supported USB boot)
9. Used GNU fdisk, made 80gb FAT partition easily
10. Formatted with mkfs.vfat
11. Rebooted, got into DOS prompt...
12. Stared at screen
13. Typed "win"; "bad command or file name"... "setup" - same thing...
14. A:\> C:     C:\> dir    C:\> d:    D:\> dir    D:\> e:   E:\> dir  (confused about so many drives, and CDROM being A: ...)
15. Aha!  E:\> cd win98se    E:\> setup
16. SUCCESS!

:p

Now it's time to play Warrior Kings with my friend! We'll build up armies until the game crashes, just like old times. Hey, maybe I can use save states with an emulated win98 from virtualbox on my end and debug our sessions :p

Does anyone know if you can play local LAN sessions of Diablo II, or is that just Battle.net?

edit:

MISSION FAILED

After installing win98se, booting results in:

Disk I/O error
Replace the disk, and then press any key

or... has the mission failed? As I sip my tea, I'm plotting...
But, ehh... Any ideas... instead of mine? :p

[Chocofreak13]

perhaps choose a newer OS that still implements legacy support. 2000, maybe?

[svx]

I thought that it might be that DOS has a limit on the size of the boot partition, but... Ehh... Yeah...

I'm not going to admit defeat yet though!

[Chocofreak13]

keep trying! >:3

[CanaryTan]

Maybe get xubuntu.
It's good for new and old computers.
Plus, if you want to use dos, you can get dos box or dos emulator from synaptic.
(or screw around with the terminal. lol)

Using Kubuntu 10.10 desktop edition

[Red-Machine]

I got mine for free by requesting a CD be shipped to me.  I think you can pay for shipping to expedite delivery, though.

[CanaryTan]

I got mine for free by requesting a CD be shipped to me.  I think you can pay for shipping to expedite delivery, though.

I got my CDs of the store...
I didn't want to spend $7.92 for a pack CDs. I wanted just ONE. I saw a CD bundle which was $6.33  :U

[Red-Machine]

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

^^ Link to get free CDs.

[Bella]

.........But you need to have a Launchpad and Paypal account. :  |


Why don't you just download it? I'd be a ton faster and less environmentally-taxing (ie, the only energy consumed will be that of the server + your computer, instead of all the energy consumed with air/freight/packaging/etc). : \

[Chocofreak13]

or, you know, just BUY THE DAMN BLANK CDs. >__< that way you can use them for other stuff too. and you don't need to get the ones with the jewel cases, the stacks of blank cd/dvd-r's are like, 5 bucks for 20. (and that way you could have CDs to install all those different copies of linux you switch around to. >__< )

i have disks of:
98SE (official disk, though it's lost somewhere)
ME
2000
XP (3 of them)
7
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
Mint

:3

[CanaryTan]

You would most likely get a CD if your internet sucks like mine does.
I already have a pay-pal AND a launchpad. |D

[Chocofreak13]

then stop paying--!!!

[CanaryTan]

then stop paying--!!!

I didn't know about ship it at the time. :3
and they don't have ship it for xubuntu OR kubuntu. :C

[svx]

Got the old computer to run!

It's got an HP motherboard, so I had to explicitly enable LBA in the BIOS...

And, ehh... I used DOS's fdisk, which decided that the 80gb hdd is actually just 10gb.
And then DOS's format, which decided the same thing.

But it somehow spit out an 80gb FAT32 partition
I'm happy :p