Restore an old Win98 system to when I first bought it and a Free Linux???

[Sharp Canadian]

Ok I have no Idea where to post this but since it is a windows 98 system Ill try here. I want to try to turn my old Pentium II computer back to when I first bought it with a clean HD and everything My question is how would I do that?

My second question is that I've been reading some things on the internet about a free linux OS? Would this work on an old PII system with 64MB ram? second how does this work?

P.S. I do have a newer AMD XP 1800+ system w/ High speed internet.

[glc]

Did the computer come with a restore CD or a generic Win98 CD? If all you want to do is wipe the hard drive and leave it completely blank, boot with your Win98 startup floppy and type FORMAT C: at the A prompt.

A Pentium II is powerful enough for Linux, but with only 64mb of ram, using a modern GUI is going to be pretty painful.

[flawedreality5]

Linux will run awful with those specs. I have Red Hat 9 on an old Celeron 433mhz with 96mb of ram and it takes 17 seconds for FireFox to execute and open. Even going through the directories takes forever. I don't recommend trying it.

[palloco]

Try Damn Small Linux.

[LocoCoyote]

Running KDE or Gnome on 64MB of RAM will be slow. You can run linix quite well using a less intensive GUI. I highly recommend IceWm. It comes with most distros.