Recent content by woundedwolf

So this totally worked! I am posting from the Dell Dimension 4600 Pentium 4 2.8 GHz right now. No hard drive, I'm running Linux Mint 17.2 Xfce (which is becoming my new favorite Linux DE) from a USB drive. I found an old USB wifi adapter that Mint identified as soon as I plugged it in. Display...

Okay, so I finally did get bored and pulled that old Dell Dimension 4600 desktop out of the garage. I forgot that I had hacked it up and tried to put a new mobo in there, but I still had the original parts and actually got it all together and running again. I didn't have a spare hard drive...

After reading this thread, I was inspired to take on a similar task of resurrecting an old laptop with the following specs: Dell Inspiron 5100 Pentium 4 2.66 (32-bit) 2GB RAM Radeon M9 Mobility 9000 128MB video Belkin 54g PCMCIA wireless card So here are the distros that I tried: Peppermint 6...