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Ah, the "joys" of Windoze
I'd been needing to replace one of my "utility" boxes. It runs a few proccesses that I don't want tying up the main box, including run a VPN client.
I don't do the VPN on the main box because my mail and a few other things get a bit tempermental if there's a VPN going.
And since the VPN client quit supporting anything older than Win 7 earlier this year, I really needed to get a box that could run Linux or at least Win 7.
My my hardware guy had a 64-bit box that maxed out at 4 gig of RAM (which is what it had installed). It had a Win7 Pro license, but some poor fool had been running Win 10 on it. Apparently it *could* run Win 10, but so slowly to be essentially not worth the effort.
So he let me have it cheap, and it basically added another month or so to the "high" payments I'm making him to cover some other hardware.
So he delivered it this moring. Had a bit of fun installing the DVD-RW in it, because of the way the case was designed. It wasn't until I looked at it really close that I realized that a "seam" on the faceplate was a button that pressed the button on the drive.
Installing Win 7 from my CD was easy. But once it was installed, it did 1 update and wanted to restart.
That was about 4 hours ago. After the restart it had 180+ updates to install. Which it just finished (mostly) a few wouldn't install.
I expect several more rounds pf updates before I can install my software. And then a few more rounds of updates as windows discovers it needs more updates because of things I've installed.
Maybe tomorrow..
I don't do the VPN on the main box because my mail and a few other things get a bit tempermental if there's a VPN going.
And since the VPN client quit supporting anything older than Win 7 earlier this year, I really needed to get a box that could run Linux or at least Win 7.
My my hardware guy had a 64-bit box that maxed out at 4 gig of RAM (which is what it had installed). It had a Win7 Pro license, but some poor fool had been running Win 10 on it. Apparently it *could* run Win 10, but so slowly to be essentially not worth the effort.
So he let me have it cheap, and it basically added another month or so to the "high" payments I'm making him to cover some other hardware.
So he delivered it this moring. Had a bit of fun installing the DVD-RW in it, because of the way the case was designed. It wasn't until I looked at it really close that I realized that a "seam" on the faceplate was a button that pressed the button on the drive.
Installing Win 7 from my CD was easy. But once it was installed, it did 1 update and wanted to restart.
That was about 4 hours ago. After the restart it had 180+ updates to install. Which it just finished (mostly) a few wouldn't install.
I expect several more rounds pf updates before I can install my software. And then a few more rounds of updates as windows discovers it needs more updates because of things I've installed.
Maybe tomorrow..
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But there are a few Windoze programs I'm stuck with so I'll need WINE or vbox or some such, and I've been told that at least for vbox, I'd be better off with 8 gig of RAM.
Sadly, neither program will run on Win 7 either, so I'm stuck with an XP box still.
One is an image comparison program (Unique Filer) It's amazing it runs on XP as it started out on Win 3.1 as I recall.
The other is the program to synch my Dana Wireless with my PC. The Dana is great for writing, but it runs an older version of the Palm OS, so again I'm stuck.
At least now the XP box doesn't need to access the Internet for anything any more.
I don't suppose there are any Linuxes around that are usable on a 2-4 gig 32-bit box?
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Debian, certainly, or any Ubuntu up to and including 16.04. 2G works unexpectedly well, especially with a lightweight desktop (e.g. LXDE on Lubuntu). I have a laptop with 1G of RAM dual-booting Lubuntu and XP Pro; it kind of sucks for video but other than that it's pretty usable. With 4G you could run Windows in VirtualBox.
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Scratching my head as to why it can't install though. Gonna put on a USB stick just in case there's a problem with the DVD.
If that doesn't work, I'll start trying other HDs from my supply of old "small"one (ie 250 gig or smaller)