How Do You Revive An Old PC With Linux?
• Consider what you want, a desktop computer, a server, or a router/firewall. • Clean it with compressed air. • Test if your PC will turn on safely. • Determine what your PC will boot from (in the BIOS or manual), old ones might not boot from USB, really old ones might not even boot from CD. • If it won’t boot from CD, download floppy boot images of Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux (WakePup for Puppy Linux 1 and 2 series) and once extracted onto a floppy disk, insert them into your old PC. Alternatively download SmatBootManager [1], install on a floppy disk and boot the computer – you should now be able to boot from your CD drive. • If you’re on dial-up and don’t want to download Damn Small Linux (50Mb) or Puppy Linux (100Mb), then buy a CD online. • Download SliTaz, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and what ever distro you wish to test and burn them to cds or create a bootable flash drive. Boot the Windows 98 computer with each version of Linux and run the computer from the CD or flash d
