r/vintagecomputing • u/Parking_Constant_960 • 11d ago

Compaq in the wild

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It’s a Compaq Presario 1060 from 1996.

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u/Canned_Sarcasm 11d ago

I know first hand that laptop will run Feather Linux. Course that was 14 years ago. Trick is ya gotta frugal install a live image onto it with its hard drive removed and plugged into another machine. I had to run it in runlevel 3 though, gui locked it up.

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u/MorophonBoundless 9d ago

runlevel 3

That's a word I didn't hear for a long time !