What computer/OS are you using?

[stewartsage]

Minix 3 on a disk now, I hope, and it'll probably be seeing action before Plan 9.

Currently operational: Xubuntu, Windows Vista, Windows XP Pro, DSL

[Bella]

I have OS/2 working in a virtual box.  But I actually have a USB floppy drive to use with it...

How did you get it to work? According to the people at VB forums, installing OS/2 (or, I should say, OS/2 v. 4 and before) in VirtualBox is close to impossible (at least for the newer versions of VB).

Minix 3 on a disk now, I hope, and it'll probably be seeing action before Plan 9.

Currently operational: Xubuntu, Windows Vista, Windows XP Pro, DSL

Quite a collection you have there. You seem to have taken a liking to rare Unixes. :B

[NejinOniwa]

Can't you just install it as usual? '>'

[stewartsage]

Quite a collection you have there. You seem to have taken a liking to rare Unixes. :B

So far thats all it is is a collection, I need to be near a computer to experiment with for longer then two minutes >>.  That, and I'm downloading programs/"things" for Minix still.

[Alex_Reetz]

Windows 7 (Custom Made)
Windows ME and Dualboot with Linspire (TwinHead P14n)
Windows 3.1 (Presario 5000)

its 2:00am here, so I will give the specs later.

[Red-Machine]

How did you get it to work? According to the people at VB forums, installing OS/2 (or, I should say, OS/2 v. 4 and before) in VirtualBox is close to impossible (at least for the newer versions of VB).

I'm using Warp 4, so maybe that's a little different.  But the iso I have for it is bootable, so maybe that's what's going on.  But I think that you could just use a 9x boot disk to make the partitions and run the installer from DOS.

[Bella]

How did you get it to work? According to the people at VB forums, installing OS/2 (or, I should say, OS/2 v. 4 and before) in VirtualBox is close to impossible (at least for the newer versions of VB).

I'm using Warp 4, so maybe that's a little different.  But the iso I have for it is bootable, so maybe that's what's going on.  But I think that you could just use a 9x boot disk to make the partitions and run the installer from DOS.

Oh, I meant OS/2 Warp 4. </facepalm>

How'd you make the disk bootable? I'm having a helluva time finding 9x (or actually, DOS 6.22) boot disks, or at least the .ima images for them. :<

[Red-Machine]

Hmmm, well it appears that it WASN'T bootable.  But, www.bootdisk.com has plenty of boot disks.

[Saber]

the laptop that i use most frequently is a Dell Studio 1555 laptop
2.14GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
512MB ATI Radeon Video
4GB DDR2 SDRAM
320GB SATA hard drive
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit Service Pack 2

This is an old clunker that I have sitting around but I still use it once in a while
Dell Optiplex GX150
931MHz Intel Pentium 3
32MB Nvidia GE Forcce4 MX 4000 video
512MB DDR SDRAM
30GB Hardrive with PC Linux OS
40GB Hardrive with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
(The XP Professional i had to hack into because of Microsoft 100% lame Windows Genuine Advantage tool)

[NejinOniwa]

It appears that I might be able to install linux+7 on my family's media box. Nejin is happy. -w-

[Bella]

Yeeeeey~!

So, K8 may or may not be up and running again-- the damn thing kept turning itsself off (after a very loud heat fan would switch on), I threw her old HD + RAM back inside and it seems to have stopped. SEEMINGLY.''

Could damaged/defective RAM cause said symptoms? O.o

This would mean I now have a rtarded-and-nlited XP Pro machine at my disposal. It can't detect wireless networks and doesn't even have a hibernate/standby option, but hey, it's fast so who cares.

[Red-Machine]

Yes, Bella.  Bad RAM could very likely be the cause of your problem there.

[ookichinposan]

well lesseee i got a asus desktop running vista pro 64 en route to win7 pro or kubuntu (still havent made up my mind yet), dell 1555 on win 7 pro, and a eeepc 1005HA on eeebuntu

[Bella]

Yes, Bella. Bad RAM could very likely be the cause of your problem there.

That's good to know.

well lesseee i got a asus desktop running vista pro 64 en route to win7 pro or kubuntu (still havent made up my mind yet), dell 1555 on win 7 pro, and a eeepc 1005HA on eeebuntu

I'd vote for Kubuntu-- because Ubuntu is awesome and uses and a ton less resources than Windows 7.

Than again, why choose? Why not do a dual-boot with the two?

[ookichinposan]

yeah i think i'll dual boot i was wanting to avoid it since i didnt realy want 2 machines on win 7 and put that power to good use but then again it has more than enough oomph to run both nicely or i could just use wine
the specs on the desktop are
i7 920 proc 2.66Ghz
1Tb HDD
9Gb RAM DDR3
nvidia GeForce GTX260
dual 23" panels

i used to run kubuntu 8.10 on an old machine before it died a while back and i liked KDE a lot more than gnome so i think i'm going that route again