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Packard Bell Legend 730 (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/vintagecomputing

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19133125

I have this vintage pc that I dug up and recently powered on, the hard drive seems to be failing (sector read errors) but I have a bunch of floppy disks i tried running today and it still works as long as it's running from the floppy and doesn't need to be installed first.

If you guys are interested, I'll post it running some things tomorrow. There's a bunch of things I want to do with it like try to replace the hard drive, get it online, and get a compiler so I can port programs or write new ones for it. Maybe install linux if that's a possibility on 6MB of RAM.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Someone here said NetBSD could work. Another person sent a link to someone who did manage to get linux on a floppy disk, that could work.

Honestly I have no idea. It's further down on my want-to-do list, and the only thing I can personally think of (without having done any research on it) is like linux from scratch, or a similar source version where I disable almost every kernel feature, and suffer through finding the right settings to enable for this hardware.