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   On 30 Aug 2003 13:12:24 -0700, mmjulian@my-deja.com (Jul) wrote:   
      
   >here_and_there  wrote in message news:...   
   >> On 29 Aug 2003 13:57:02 -0700, mmjulian@my-deja.com (Jul) wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >I have a laptop with only dos on it I do not know the capacity of the   
   >> >hard drive, what are the steps software and hardware I need in terms   
   >> >of putting an oeprating system on it such as win95 possibly by the   
   >> >transfer of files with a usb cable   
   >> >   
   >> >thanks,   
   >> First, enter   
   >> dir   
   >> at the prompt to see what files are loaded an dhow much space is still   
   >> available.   
   >>   
   >> You need about 500,000,000 space if you are going to install Windows   
   >> and some(few) WIndows applications.  For moving files to he laptopt,   
   >> you should check that USB is available - I somehow doubt that DOS will   
   >> have the USB port working.   
   >>   
   >> So tell us more about the laptop and then someone may be able to help   
   >> you load Windows.   
   >   
   >It's a toshiba satellite laptop with 126 disk space dunno if windows   
   >3.1 could be run on it or a version of linux, if my questions are real   
   >silly sorry am new to this :(   
   That's a very small disk by today's needs.  You could run Win 3..1 -   
   don't know about Linux.  By the time you loaded Windows 95/98, you   
   would have little space left for programs and data files.   
      
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