So I put my hands on an old (very old) Fujitsu laptop, and I have the next problem. It has Windows 98 installed and the display is not fullscreen. Tried to change resolution and all but it doesn't work. I ran Damn Small Linux from a Live CD and it was fullscreen. Now I'm currently installing Windows XP SP2 and it has the same problem, even at the blue screen part of the install where it loads the files it isn't fullscreen.

SPECS:
Intel Pentium II 233
128 RAM
Around 3 GB of Hard Disk memory
I don't know about the display part.

Thx in advance.

NEW PROBLEM: ps2 mouse doesn't work. It doesn't even show the cursor. Under Damn Small Linux it worked, what could be the problem?

Holy crap those specs are low.

First thing - Don't bother with windows XP at all - on that spec pc i'm not sure it'll even run let alone run well.

Find a lightweight linux distro, haven't had to do this for a while so not sure what the good ones nowadays are, I used to use Xubuntu on my old crappy laptop but there are probably better choices.

The display problem sounds like a driver problem to me - However if you're gonna stay away from win XP on that system (which I'd recommend) you won't have to worry anyway. The reason that it may be happening in the windows XP install screen as well is I'm pretty sure XP uses a cut down version of Windows 98 to install XP (afaik, may be wrong)

The display issue would most likely be it running non-native resolutions with disabled or no scaler built into the panel hardware. Some laptops do have scaler settings in the BIOS, it may be currently set to 1:1 mapping.

Select proper native resolution with the correct display driver and it should fill the screen.

You'd be amazed but xp works well. Fixed the display but there remains the mouse problem.

If the laptop has a touchpad then I guess you may need the driver for that in order to pass through to the external ps/2 port.

You really shouldn't have bothered with XP. You're at the rock bottom of requirements and surely it must take up half you hard drive?

Min ram is 256mb afaik, just dont bother with it dude, like slushy says get linux

I would go with linux but I can't seem to find a user friendly distro that could run on it. I tried DSL but it was too hard to get along with it.

EDIT:

I installed Puppy Linux and the mouse still doesn't work. Any ideas? It worked on the live CD Damn Small Linux, it didn't work under XP neither under 98. Any ideas?

did you install the drivers for it yet? you've not told us if you tried that yet

No drivers for linux. It seems that the new Linux kernel doesn't support ps2 mice so... I installed 98 again.