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Operating Systems Linux OS for Compaq Presario 1685 Post 302350239 by Leppie on Thursday 3rd of September 2009 07:27:20 AM
Old 09-03-2009
i have used this method on old systems (386s and 486s) and can tell you it did work for me. obviously not all hardware is the same and chances are that this may cause issues on this particular system. but generally i would say that this does work on older systems where usually the problem is that booting from cd is not supported by the bios (like on somewhat newer systems booting from usb may not be supported whilst booting from cd is supported).

i do not know the minimum system requirements for puppy, but a guess is that he may be better off with something like dsl or deli linux since he's got severely outdated hardware. i've used dsl on an old machine with 500mhz cpu and 192mb ram. only using things like firefox and openoffice, etc. is really slow. however, since this machine has only 32mb of ram it's most likely not possible to use these applications anyway.

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HWINFO(8)						       System configuration							 HWINFO(8)

NAME
hwinfo - probe for hardware SYNOPSIS
hwinfo [ OPTIONS ] DESCRIPTION
hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support. OPTIONS
Note that running hwinfo without any options is roughly equivalent to 'hwinfo --all --log=-'. --<HARDWARE_ITEM> This option can be given more than once. Probe for a particular HARDWARE_ITEM. Available hardware items are: all, arch, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera, cdrom, chipcard, cpu, disk, dsl, dvb, fingerprint, floppy, framebuffer, gfxcard, hub, ide, isapnp, isdn, joystick, keyboard, memory, modem, monitor, mouse, netcard, network, partition, pci, pcmcia, pcm- cia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, redasd, reallyall, scanner, scsi, smp, sound, storage-ctrl, sys, tape, tv, uml, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe, wlan, xen, zip --short Show only a summary. Use this option in addition to a hardware probing option. --listmd Normally hwinfo does not report RAID devices. Add this option to see them. --only DEVNAME This option can be given more than once. If you add this option, only data about devices with DEVNAME will be shown. --save-config SPEC Store config for a particular device below /var/lib/hardware. SPEC can be a device name, an UDI, or 'all'. This option must be given in addition to a hardware probing option. --show-config UDI Show saved config data for a particular device. --map If disk names have changed (e.g. after a kernel update) this prints a list of disk name mappings. Note that you must have used --save-config at some point before for this can work. --debug N Set debug level to N. The debug info is shown only in the log file. If you specify a log file, the debug level is implicitly set to a reasonable value. --verbose Increase verbosity. Only together with --map. --log FILE Write log info to FILE. --dump-db N Dump hardware data base. N is either 0 for the external data base in /var/lib/hardware, or 1 for the internal data base. --version Print libhd version. --help Print usage. ENVIRONMENT
hwprobe can hold a comma-separated list of probing flags preceded by '+' or '-' to be turned on or off. To get a complete list of supported flags, run 'hwinfo -all' (note: not '--all') and look at the top of the output. hwinfo also looks at /proc/cmdline for a hwprobe option. EXAMPLES
- show all disks hwinfo --disk - just an overview hwinfo --short --block - show a particular disk hwinfo --disk --only /dev/sdb - save disk config state hwinfo --disk --save-config=all - try 4 graphics card ports for monitor data (default: 3) hwprobe=bios.ddc.ports=4 hwinfo --monitor - monitor detection runs the Video BIOS to get the monitor data; dump a complete BIOS code execution trace to the log hwprobe=bios.ddc.ports=1,x86emu=trace:dump:trace.only=0:dump.only=0 hwinfo --monitor --log=foo FILES
/var/lib/hardware/hd.ids External hardware data base (in readable text form). Try the --dump-db option to see the format. /var/lib/hardware/udi Directory where persistent config data are stored (see --save-config option). BUGS
Not all hardware can be detected. SEE ALSO
More documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/hwinfo. Source repository: git://git.opensuse.org/projects/hwinfo.git. hwinfo June 2009 HWINFO(8)
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