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[Member amorozov]

Hello world!

Finally i have installed AntiX on my old laptop Toshiba S5200-801 (from 2004). It was my first laptop and i like it as a museum treasure. Only Windows XP worked there and during the last 5 years it was staying on my shelf like a stone. Today it received the second life! Pentium 4M + 1Gb Memory (the maximum)+tiny usb wifi stick +AntiX made a miracle! I can still read news from internet + play simple card games + work in LibreOffice + listen radio. It is much better then i expected from it.

Thank you!

Alex.

[Member Xecure]

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Welcome to the antiX forum!

Thanks so much for telling us your experience with antiX! I am glad you could give back new life to this computer that has so much history with you.

Let us know if we can help with anything.

Regards.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member r_chase]

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Welcome!

I’m glad you’re enjoying your AntiX experience. Though, I do wonder if your machine is 32-bit or 64-bit, even though you did say it’s a 2004 laptop. Still, pretty nice that you got something old working again. <3

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello amorozov,

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

Regardless of your level of knowledge about GNU/Linux, I recommend you read these excellent tutorials created by @PPC:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie and How-to install applications – 2020 version.

I don’t know how to write in English and I send my texts translated by the internet translator.

I have also been reviving several computers with antiX.

When you start any topic or participate with any post, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, by checking this option you will receive a message in your email inbox whenever there are replies to the topic in question.

marcelocripe
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Olá amorozov,

Seja bem-vindo ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Independentemente do seu nível de conhecimento sobre GNU/Linux, eu recomendo você ler estes excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie e How-to install applications – 2020 version.

Eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês e envio os meus textos traduzidos pelo tradutor da internet.

Eu também venho revivendo vários computadores com o antiX.

Quando você iniciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, marcando esta opção, você receberá uma mensagem na sua caixa de e-mail sempre que houver respostas do tópico em questão.

marcelocripe
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[Member amorozov]

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r_chase wrote:

Welcome!

I’m glad you’re enjoying your AntiX experience. Though, I do wonder if your machine is 32-bit or 64-bit, even though you did say it’s a 2004 laptop. Still, pretty nice that you got something old working again. <3

PC Information utilyte says:

Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 15
Model: 2
Model name: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 – M CPU 2.00GHz
Stepping: 7
CPU MHz: 2000.000
CPU max MHz: 2000,0000
CPU min MHz: 1200,0000
BogoMIPS: 3987.05
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr

So, no chance for 64 bit 🙂

I am not newbie , but today i have solved a real quest!

1. Originally laptop had 256MB. I got 2 banks for 512MB (1GB) even for free just asking it! This type of memory was so old,rare and useless for the person who gave me them.
2. My laptop’s BIOS does not have the option “Boot from USB” (Only FDD,CD or HDD). So i have to use Plop Boot Manager 5 (booting from FDD) to magically open USB boot option on my laptop and let AntiX-19_i386_Full installation process work properly.
3. This Linux core is too modern for my laptop’s video system, so i had to type “quiet splash nomodest” to start it finally!

But after all of this i spent a really great day today with my old good fiend Toshiba (like we did 15 years ago)! AntiX even get the touchbar (it never worked before on WindowsXP) 🙂

My youngest son helped me today and we start to learn some python lessons. They also work fine here. No, i typing this message on completely old hardware, listen music, read my mailbox on gmail.com and work with some business files on it! It is fantastic! Even if i do it quite slow comparing my modern Mac.

Alex.

[Member amorozov]

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Thank you, Marcelo!
I got it.

[Member olsztyn]

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amorozov wrote:

My laptop’s BIOS does not have the option “Boot from USB” (Only FDD,CD or HDD). So i have to use Plop Boot Manager 5 (booting from FDD) to magically open USB boot option on my laptop and let AntiX-19_i386_Full installation process work properly.

At least you have USB 2.0. My oldest laptop T23 was from 2000 with USB 1.1. Slower than CD…
I installed antiX as Frugal on it.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by olsztyn.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by olsztyn.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

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