Minimum RAM for HD Install.
 

A friend has offered me an old Laptop. The maximum RAM it can take is 64mb.

Will this be enough for Puppy to run?

TIA,
Tim

G'day Tim

Should work ok.
Have 233Mhz Dell with 96MB using puppy 2.10r1, works very well.
If puppy runs from CD then create a linux swap partition on the HD.
There is a bug with 2.11 HD install, so use 2.10r1 at the moment.

Eric

G'day Eric,

I guess I could also install Puppy on the HD (which is only 1.5GB).

Cheers,
Tim

Tim

Yes, give it a try. Puppy should only take up less than 300mb.

Enjoy
Eric

Last month, someone gave me a pentium 166MHz portable with 16MB of RAM. I came *this* close to getting it to boot Puppy (it thrashes forever at the stage of loading the desktop). I reckon it would have worked with 32MB, or even 24. And I regularly run Puppy 2.02 installed on my 133MHz P1 with 80MB and it runs pretty well. Not exactly fast, but usable. Of course, dillo and ted run a little more smoothly than Seamonkey and Abiword!

A little update to my previous post. One of the other contributors from the main Puppy Forum made me a gift of some old laptop EDO RAM, which I put into the machine I mentioned above. So the present system config is:

166MHz Pentium 1
40MB RAM
1.6GB hard disk with 128MB Linux swap partition

Puppy 2.02 (the nearest CD I had to hand) booted and ran just fine. Not very fast, but usable. Do note that I haven't yet tried installing Firefox or OpenOffice, and I probably won't be using this as my primary development machine! 8)

It should work, I use a old notebook with 96mb of ram.

I had an older pc with only 64MB of ram. I used some other distro's liveCD to create a linux swap partition on it prior to running puppy on it. When I reformatted the HD to make it one big NTFS partition (I did this because I was selling the pc) puppy would no longer boot. I think I was using 2.01 at the time.