best distro for an old computer? (more details inside)

mikewyatt · 10-12-2004, 03:53 AM

hey there

I've got an incredibly old computer, it's a p75 with 48 megs of ram and a 4 meg video card along with a 3 gig drive

the thing can't boot from cd's, and I don't have any cd's on hand to burn, so a network install could be nice (I tried debian sarge and woody, but they couldn't find my hard drive, but suse could, so I don't think it's a hardware problem)

so if anyone could drop some good distros and wm's, I'd be glad to hear

Baldrick65 · 10-12-2004, 08:15 AM

Possibly Slackware with a light-weight wm like fluxbox / blackbox. That's what I'd be trying.

Baldrick

mikewyatt · 10-12-2004, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baldrick65
Possibly Slackware with a light-weight wm like fluxbox / blackbox. That's what I'd be trying.

yeah, after reading around I figured that's what I should go for

but does slackware support any form of net install?
because at this point I don't exactly have 4 cd's

mikewyatt · 10-12-2004, 07:12 PM

well, slackware was short lived

I can't even boot from the boot.i floppy

Code:

Code: Bad EIP value
<0>Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!