Wgcorps Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The other day I pulled my very old computer out of my closet, I wanted to test out how much traffic my network can handle. So I installed Windows 98 on it, the only problem I have is that no web browser works on it, the only one that works is IE, but everything i open it up "Illegal operation" and my computer crashes... So I figured this would be a great opportunity to install Linux on a box... First I tried Morphix, and goblin-x both of which worked fine on other computer, but neither would install or live boot. Then I got Ubuntu from a friend. I tried a live boot, after about 35 minutes of a long list of errors it finally came up to a command prompt and nothing will run...... I was wondering if there is a lesser version of Linux that uses a windows manager and can run off a computer with....... 190MB of RAM and a 500MGhz processor (Pentium II i think)... Any help would be great... I'm just kinda lost and I really want to get my old computer to run again... well get on web pages with it and be able to download things off the internet with it. -Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Debian or FreeBSD, coupled with Fluxbox or similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 I'll try those, I think that when I tried to download Debian tho, it was to hard to figure out how to download it ( I'm not good with the whole directory downloading type of thing... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Why not give Fluxbuntu or DSLn a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 I feel kinda stupid for asking this but, can u just burn the ISO to a CD? or do u need any certain program to burn it? Like Nero or something different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The iso extension usually indicates the file is a CD image. CD images need writing to the disk as if it where a bit for bit copy of a CD (which it is). This can be done with Nero, but there are free programs that allow you to do this in windows (such as ISOrecorder) but most Linux distros (and MAC OS X) can do this out of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I have a linux box sitting off to the side of my network and I want to hack it to see how good the security is on it any hints on this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I have a linux box sitting off to the side of my network and I want to hack it to see how good the security is on it any hints on this ? Are you sure this is your computer and not some one else's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 well since its sitting beside u, then u have fill access to it, i suggest googling the kernal, and find some exploits for it, though if its not next to then ur gonna have some troubles getting infomation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 well since its sitting beside u, then u have fill access to it, i suggest googling the kernal, and find some exploits for it, though if its not next to then ur gonna have some troubles getting infomation. Found some exploits but do not know how to use them . I'm using a linux box with mandriva 2007 the box I want to "hack" is running SUSE 10.1 I'm do not care if i break it I can always fix it. More feed back would great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychokiller Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I guess this aint wt this topic was meant to be discussing and i smell somethin baaaaaaaaaaad if it's ur box y do u want to break or have access to it and u can secure it by firewalls and antiviruses, actually u r using Linux so Just make Sure that u r secure w khalas :D:D but if u wanna hack it i guess it's not allowed to be discussed in Hak5 (i may B wrong) NB: w khalas = and make it the end of the story (in Arabic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I have a linux box sitting off to the side of my network and I want to hack it to see how good the security is on it any hints on this ? Please don't hijack threads, if you wish to ask a question please start your own thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I have a linux box sitting off to the side of my network and I want to hack it to see how good the security is on it any hints on this ? Are you sure this is your computer and not some one else's? Yeah don't hack my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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