Thank you Slitaz developers. I became a slave to Bill Gates in 1998 when I bought this Windows Me laptop for $1400 dollars. The hardware never broke, it was lightly used, but it eventually just became too slow to work. I have managed to free myself from Bill Gates. I became enlightened to Linux through a website called lifehacker, and I tried out a couple of live CD's.
Now, I have just finished a successful install of Slitaz 3.0 on my laptop, and it has come back to life!!!! You guys rock!!! I don't have to throw away a perfectly good machine just because it is old.
Here are my system specs:
Toshiba Satellite 1735 Laptop
Intel Celeron 700mHz processor
10GB IDE Hard Drive
13" DSTN Display
800x600 ATI Radeon Graphics Processor
added memory stick for 192MB RAM
DLink DI-524 Rev C wireless card
I am definitely a Linux newbie, but I learned a lot through trial and error.
I was able to install using the install tool on the Slitaz 3.0 live CD. I just followed all the defaults. Once Windows Me was overwritten, I had a little glitch with the GRUB boot up, because The Toshiba welcome screen was still looking for FAT32? But I repeated the HD install using the Live CD, and I made sure to reformat the whole hard drive(I particularly enjoyed overwriting Windows Me). Then it worked.
Because of Windows, my $1400 laptop was no longer able to do what my 80$ handheld phone could do -surf the web. Now, with Slitaz, my laptop does not have to be thrown away. Thank you!!!!
