On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:34 PM Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm from Portugal and here a ssd are around 39.67 us dollars / 34 euros for > 240gb, and i don't know if there are lower sizes anymore... still expensive.
That's about what I'd expect to pay in the US for a 240GB SSD, depending upon brand. But "expensive: is relative. Prices on such things have been steadily falling. About a year ago, a chap elsewhere recounted upgrading a server he managed. It was a database machine running a "NoSQL" database like MongoDB. He replaced 16TB of SATA HDs with 16TB worth of 2TB Samsung SSDs. He got a quantum increase in performance. The machine *screamed* through queries and updates. The significant bit for me was that prices had dropped enough that he could *afford* to do that upgrade. Two years ago he wouldn't have been able to afford it, but poces fell a lot, and still are.. > To install 2 OS, i would go with Windows 95 SE or 98 SE to copy files (games > for me), i don't know but i'm sure that freedos will read pen drives as long > they are plugged in before booting. Linux is quite capable of doing the copies. You *dn't* need Win95 or 98 SE just for that. You will need a FAT file system to install them to, which is why I suggested partitioning, but Linux and read and write FAT file systems and place stuff on them. > Linux would do, but has you said, had to be a very low resources. Lubuntu using Lxde, or Xubuntu using XFCE is one option. Another is something like TinyCore Linux. > The idea was for freedos to be the main OS, but i will take in mind your > recommendation. If you can get it working and all that is needed is FreeDOS, fine. But having an actual Linux distro installed gives you the option of doing things that *can't* be done with FreeDOS. ______ Dennis > João > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:17 AM dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:15 PM Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to >> > windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode. >> >> Win10 needs 4GB RAM *minimum*. The sweet spot is 6GB. No surprise >> performance was poor. >> >> > I was thinking of installing Linux Xubuntu for it's low resources. >> >> I did that on an ancient notebook that had a whopping *256MB* RAM. >> Xubuntu would install, but performance left a lot to be desired. >> Posters on the Ubuntu list said Ubuntu had a steadily increasing idea >> of what "low end" was, and that too much Gnome had crept into XFCE. >> What I wound up doing was following their suggestions and installing >> from the Linux Minimal CD. That gave me a working command line Linux >> installation, with networking and video. From there I could install >> apt-get, and DL specific packages. I used Lxde as the lowest resource >> GUI desktop, and Lxde brought along Xorg. I installed to an ext4 file >> system. The result actually ran, though it wasn't anything you would >> call fast. >> >> The ancient notebook came to me with WinXP SP2. XP wants 512MB >> RAM minimum. I reformatted, repartitioned, installed Win2K Pro (which >> would sort of run in 256MB RAM,) two flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS, >> multi booting under Grub2. Win2K was on an NTFS slice, Linux was on >> ext4, and FreeDOS was on FAT32. It was mostly an experiment to see >> what performance I could wring out of ancient hardware *without* >> throwing money at it. I haven't booted it in a long time. >> >> > A friend of my IT guy "is nagging" me a year now to get an ssd, so i was >> > thinking get one ssd 240, stick it to eeepc and install freedos. >> >> You don't even need 240. I got a 120GB budget SSD from my preferred >> retailer for $20 US. The intended use is in another old notebook >> device replacing the HD. >> >> > My issues are: >> > >> > 1 - Will freedos work well with atom cpu >> >> Sure. The Atom CPU is an Intel x86 design, and FreeDOS will run on >> any of them. (Getting it to *boot* is another matter unrelated to the >> CPU.) >> >> > 2 - Can freedos detect 2Gb of ram >> >> I believe so, but for FreeDOS, how much do you *care*? >> >> FreeDOS will use 640K as user RAM where it and your programs will load >> and run. With EMS/XMS, you may be able to use RAM beyond 1MB for >> things like disk cache and RAMdisk. >> >> > The idea is to carry the eeepc with me to play and to also to show my 7 >> > year old girlfriend nephew the games I played back in 1988 and forward. >> >> I'd install a low resource requirement version of Linux on ext4, carve >> out a separate FAT partition for FreeDOS, and multi-boot. >> >> I wouldn't try to make FreeDOS the primary OS. >> ______ >> Dennis >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- _______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
