Hello.

I BOUGHT an old computer at a garage sale and figured I would just use it to mess around with.
So I set it all up and reformatted the harddrive. To my DISMAY it would not read any of my linux cds, nor any of my windows cds
It came with a a windows 95 disc and a blank floppy. I want to get some kind of OS on here, or flash the bios to boot cds (if it's possible)

It's an Acer, and that's PRETTY much all I know about it.
Thanks in advace, sorry if this is in the wrong fourm or I left something out.Model #? Processor? RAM? Boot options? Hard drive size? This can be found in the BIOS/setup options.all I got was..


Bedrock VT dual Cas Edo Dios 2.130

16000kb mem good
64kb SYSTEM mem

edit: while trying to install windows 95 I think I made a floppy and I think I booted it, it went to caldera dr-dos and I didn't know what to do from there.http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Choose windows 98SE OEM. Download and double click thte file to creat a bootdisk on a blank floppy.

Boot with that disk and type in format c:/u

then type in e:setup witht the Windows85 cD in the drive

there you gowhy do I need the 98 se, I when I have a window 95 disc?Because it will load CDROM drivers, so you can install from the CD! The drivers work for virtually ALL CD ROM drives. Can I install xp or a form of linux if I wanted to?XP and a LOT of Linux may be too hardware intensive for some older computers with limited resources. 16 meg RAM and a (probably) very small hard drive will be very limiting.