Best of luck getting it to work as a video player.
Ensure your hardware has the mmx instructions.
Boot the machine with a Linux of some sort.
I'd suggest the BG-Rescue floppy pair I mentioned before:-

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Now ensure that 'mmx' appears in the Flags: line.
If you havn't got the 'mmx' instructions I fear you are more of less
condemned to failure for playing video.

imho, old hardware + old distros + old drivers will all conspire
together to ensure you live in "interesting times".

Would folks be interested in an online demo of how I would install a
relatively modern Linux kernel and a few utilities on a machine
similar to Aiden's one?

I have a 1995 vintage 100MHz classic Pentium which we might be able to
catch before it escapes to the re-cyclers. I haven't had it running
for aeons so it might not work any more.


On 10/13/07, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> continued from before...
> or maybe I'll try something like AntiX before resorting to rummaging
> through the archives (using an old distro).
>


-- 
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

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