It´s my first time around Linux and I´m trying to install Red Hat 9 to a pentium 120, 32mg ram, 1mg graphic card.

Do you think it will work, with the x window?

If not, which destibution shoul I choose?

(Plus, on Red Hat, the install feature doesn´t recognize my mouse. It´s a 2 buttons PS/2 compatible through a com port.)


Thanks for any help you can give me.

Try some smaller Linux.
RH 9 with XWindow is really slow, even if I have 1.8 Ghz, 256 MB RAM

I've Slackware 9.0 (8.1 was even faster) in a Compaq, 166mhz, 32 RAM, 2 Megas videocard running at reasonable speed. Rehat, as stated above, is really slow. I'm also in a 2GHZ here, running Redhat and KDE. Can't wait to format it and run Slack only on this box too

I thank you all!

I'll try slack and hope to be back with more questions.

I had an old AMD laptop with similar specs to yours. I tried Redhat 8, no deal- Mandrake 8.2, again no deal. I got Redhat 7.3 to load but it was unbearably slow. The only thing I found that was acceptable was Debian Woody. I'd advise getting the disk set, and to read the docs before you do anything.

Good point Peteatwork! Debian is also a nice shot.

I have also tried some Redhat distros on my laptop. The one that seemed to fits would be Redhat 6.2. I've used Redhat 6.2 for a long while and the install is about 300 megas including Gnome, which is nice.(not forgetting that apt-get works with that Redhat version) But for some reason, it stopped at "Checking for PCMIA" at the boot time, and there it hangs. I could never get around this, but laters version of Redhat, as my favorite one (7.3) worked fine but were far too slow to make my machine usable

If your looking to put linux on a slow pc don't even consider red hat 9.0...slow as balls.