What OS can I run on an 80MB drive?

[BCinSC]

beside plain old DOS?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Win 3.1 might fit in that. and their was a project that fit win95 down that small if I recall, also some minimal Linux installs might work or you could just run them from CD.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Mac OS7

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I'd say Win 3.1 is about as far as you're going to go with that.

Personally I'd just get rid of the drive.

 

[Away]

My question is...why would you want to?

 

[BCinSC]

'Caus I paid good money for it a while back and I have a old laptop that needs a drive.

 

[mwmorph]

linux command line?

 

[calyco]

Damn Small Linux? Sorry cant give you more info, I just started looking at it last night.

 

[Maluno]

Yeah, you could use any one of a number of whittled-down linux distros. Even more possibly, a LiveCD such as slax.

 

[P0ldy]

LFS.

 

[BCinSC]

System probably won't have a CD drive (i'll borrow from another laptop to setup)

 

[Peter007]

I believe that Win95A can fit under 80.
I recall that NT4 was also under 100mb

 

[SeTeS]

puppy linux. full gui in like 60 megs, so you have some room for data or extra apps.

 

[yokomo]

any live cd version of linux should work I would think...

 

[NewBlackDak]

A trimmed BeOS would run in 80mb, and probably be better than any of the others offered.

If you want a bigger drive, I have a 4GB I could sell you.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Both Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux would work great on a 80mb drive. Each download is only 50-60mb and I keep DSL and Puppy on those mini-CDRW discs for easy access.

You'd be suprised what all is included with the OS. Obviously, they don't have the features of the full-featured distros like Ubuntu, MEPIS, etc., but I was so impressed with DSL, I thought about putting it on my laptop since it's so lightweight.

 

[BCinSC]

I never thought about BeOS - though I have several versions. That might be fun to tinker with again. I've got bigger drives, but was hoping to recycle this one into circulation.

 

[eggrole1]

i'd spring for a <10gb hdd... im sure one can be had for like 10usd. THat is if that old lappy takes 3.5", a 2.5" might be more than a couple of bucks.

 

[cubby1223]

Sounds like it's time to hunt around for some Dell laptop coupon codes