Linux for my old laptop?

Redhat9.0newbie · 08-17-2003, 04:56 PM

hello all i was wondering if yall could help me out here.

I have an old laptop 386 with 12 megs of ram and 320 meg harddrive. I want to install a linux on there with a gui. could anyone help me out. probly the hardest part about this is that i dont have a cdrom drive.

thanks

LSD · 08-20-2003, 07:13 AM

Good Luck!

In all seriousness even the most basic X Window Manager will chug on a system like that. For console mode apps, it'll be fine. You can probably squeeze a Slackware or Debian install onto it but I wouldn't even think about trying anything else.

nephilim · 08-20-2003, 08:40 AM

I have to agree with LSD here...

I have an old 486 laptop and couldn't install a windows manager on it. So I installed slackware without gui (just console) - no problem, runs fine.

If you don't have a cdrom, try alfaLinux - just 2 floppy disks.

http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/alfaeng.php3