A old one....made new :)

[vinnywright]

Well hear I go agin.................LOL

when my son found this thing in the trash it had windows XP on it and it was so ate up with viruses it would barley start

I was asked to take it for one of the last ones he brought me that I had relucktentley reloded XP on for him and of corse I did.

the box is a old gatway desind for win ME/2000 it has the folowing specks

vinny@desktop2:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)
02:0a.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
02:0d.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (rev 08)

vinny@desktop2:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 379768 371064 8704 0 7236 124356
-/+ buffers/cache: 239472 140296
Swap: 2184800 22952 2161848

vinny@desktop2:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 0
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1695.828
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts
bogomips : 3391.65
clflush size : 64
power management:

vinny@desktop2:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 12G 3.0G 8.1G 27% /
udev 186M 276K 186M 1% /dev
none 186M 12K 186M 1% /dev/shm
none 186M 80K 186M 1% /var/run
none 186M 0 186M 0% /var/lock
none 186M 0 186M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3 60G 286M 57G 1% /home

vinny@desktop2:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for vinny:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaee5aee5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 272 2184808+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 273 1804 12305790 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1805 9729 63657562+ 83 Linux

So I amedeatley started to re do it............first I found a big gray cotonball of dust completley blocking the heat sink and CPU fan ........he he so out with all the hardware and a good cleening.

then Gparted live cd and a reworking of the drive.

now my Karmic 9.10 cd and a fresh start for the old girl.........a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ........... some medibuntu .......... a little this and that .... (still cant find KDE-4.3.3) but o well.

and .............it's runing just fine every thing seams to work AND to my surprise so dose the 3D stuff .........I realey dident expect that with so little RAM 2-128MB and 2-64MB chips for a total of 384MB RAM

but a pitchurs worth a thousend words so hears the screeney you new was coming...........

[img width=400 height=300]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/newbox.png[/img]

well how bought that..........not bad for a 47 year old construction worker with a bad linux habit ...Hu.

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Re: A old one....made new

Pretty cool. Good job!

[vinnywright]

Re: A old one....made new

say sense your hear what do you think would be beater that ATI card or a gforce2 mx400 I have laying around ?

Mr Snowhog

VINNY

[sithlord48]

Re: A old one....made new

another story of success. , very nice vinny, its amazing what a "junk" machine can be used for today.

[Qqmike]

Re: A old one....made new

That's a cool story, Vinny!
Hope you don't blame me for plugging dd on this one. This is a PERFECT example where dd can be used to completely wipe the drive, taking it as close to factory-new as is reasonably possible (before partitioning/reinstalling) ...

-- The dd Command
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090824.0
(Part 2: Examples; or Part 3)

[GreyGeek]

Re: A old one....made new

....
it has the folowing specks
...

I hate to be a spelling Nazi, but shouldn't "specks" be "speks"?



Great job, Vinny!!!

Putting Linux on the old boxes is MUCH better than filling up the junk yards with them or sending them to China to extract the valuable resources while polluting the environment.
GG

[carib]

Re: A old one....made new

WELL DONE, Vinny!

[vinnywright]

Re: A old one....made new

@Snowhog ...

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@sithlord48 junkey is as junkey dose

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@Qqmike no I dont mind you plugging dd ....... in fact I just keep forgeting to try the disk destroyer on stuff like this ware it would be a perfect opertunety to play with it.... 8)

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@GreyGeek danke Herr GreyGeek wie wir alle wissen ist meine Rechtschreibung ....... wohles Ermangeln ....... :P and I totaley agrey

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@carib

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well this makes 5 diferent computer's from diferent years that have goten a Kubuntu 9.10 install withought mutch trouble and all work well 8) ...and 2 more with Xubuntu

and thank you all for you'r words of encouragement .................................

VINNY