can you list some of the extensions you use on your classic mac os machines? i’ve noticed there are a ton of icons on boot up and i don’t recognize most of them
Macrium Reflect is the easiest software method I still use to clone and/or image drives. I use one of those USB to PATA/SATA adapters (powered) with my modern laptop to creat and restore entire disk images. It takes me minutes to image drives or to create a drive for a new system. Check it out 👍
I use an iiyama ProLite B1980D 5:4 (1280x1024) LCD as my daily driver screen, my I ask where you get your wallpapers from? I'am stuck with an very old wallpaper (Sailor Moon) I found ages ago through a google image search..😅
IRIX is System V (Releases 3 and 4 specifically, depending on the version), and only ever ran on MIPS processors. While there were other System Vs that _did_ get release on x86 (Solaris, for instance), I don't have much confidence it'd run well on here considering the chipset that was used.
More storage is the main reason I went this route, but also this in theory will last longer and would give me theoretically better speeds if I didn't have to disable UDMA (and should once I can get a SATA card)
Not on a PC of this spec, no. First and foremost, it looks like ChromeOS Flex requires a 64-bit CPU and this has a 32-bit CPU. Beyond that though I don't think this computer could meet the RAM requirements either.
I would use a Sata PCI card since the computer running windows xp anyways, thought sometimes the bios hate these cards and won't boot from them. I played around with a lot of different cards, and It was a real pain to find a card that work great. But I did found found one, and that was the "Promise FastTrak S150 TX4". Great thing with about this card, it had driver support for windows 98! And all my retro computers had no issues booting with it. Sadly it's a hard card to come by, and it's Spendy. If you find one cheap, pick it up fast!
Yeah, that's my eventual goal - I found that the BIOS in this computer doesn't like booting the adapter unless I disable UDMA, which is of course going to be very slow, so I think finding a bootable PCI SATA card will be my best bet for speed. I'll keep an eye out for that model, thanks for the recommendation :)
@@europa6502 If you do get one, the drivers are still available on their website. If you don't plan on using windows 98, you could probable can go with the "Promise SATA 300 TX4" version, easier to find and it's cheaper too. It does say it supports Sata 2, but your still limited by the the PCI bus speed. That motherboard is 133MB's and Sata 1 Max speed is about 150MB's anyways so there's no real speed advantage of having Sata 2.
@@europa6502 I remember in early 2000s there was a virus infecting computers designed to troll people where randomly bios speaker would just be turned on and wont stop, it is possible that you have that, since it's just a simple script that activates it.
I can't find the info 100%. But for fun make sure it is running the AMDK7 Kernel. If the Linux is to old it won't use the full resources of the processor. I know back in the day I doubled my linux speed on a Cyrix PR233 socket 7 processor. Also the other thing I did was make sure it worked with the chip set and not using say the generic ide driver. In my case once again it double the speed of boot. Today Linux has most of the supported loaded for processor you are using during the install. Unlike the old days. apt-get :)
Red Hat Linux 9 is from back in 2003, the original AMD K7 launched in 1999. Linux CPU support is pretty much a given if you're running anything newer than an original Pentium, but that can change over time. Once upon a time it supported the Intel '386 and '486 cpus without any extra effort.
oh cool i used to daily one of these things with an r7 240, 4 gigs of ram and windows 7 it was a pretty terrible experience, but hey, it was mine and gave me my first taste of desktop computing
Oh nice! I had access to one of these when I was younger and I put Windows 2000 on it lol. It was a neat little machine and I'm glad to have another one :)
Hanging on POST could have been related to the HDD plugged into the secondary drive connector on the PATA ribbon cable. The first connector at the end of the cable is for single drive, and when auto detect is enabled.
Ah, that's good to know, thanks. I tried basically every configuration I could with every valid jumper setting I could and the only thing that really remained constant was that it would hang when the zip drive was plugged into the data cable, even when it was unplugged from power.
Honestly that'd be fun - I've tried Haiku on a system of a similar age (My ThinkPad X40 from 2004), but this has less RAM, a VIA chipset, and an AMD processor, so it'd be a lot of things I haven't tried Haiku on before :3
