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Old 11-01-2007, 10:45 AM   #1
farofa
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distro for an older tower.


I have a working tower with these specifications: pentium p54cs processor 166mhz 66mhz bus speed
CD reader, tape drive, 128M ede ram, 5 1/2 floppy, 3.5" floppy, serial keyboard, no mouse, barracuda gard drive, soundblaster card, isa ether net/cable networking card. It works.
What can I install onto it.
The hard drive is separated into logical partitions and I think it is either 2 or 5 gigabytes.

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Old 11-01-2007, 10:50 AM   #2
bjagee
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I'd start with slackware, or DSL(damn small linux). There are a ton of options though. Ubuntu would even install off the alternate CD, but you wouldn't want to run it. You might try Xubuntu.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 11:07 PM   #3
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Vector Linux
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

BeaFanatIX
http://bea.cabarel.com/

PCFluxBoxOS
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=538615

Luit Linux
http://luitlinux.sarovar.org/
 
Old 11-05-2007, 04:29 PM   #4
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Let us know what you try and how it goes.
 
  


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