LiveCD Distro Question

marsh58 · 03-20-2005, 07:33 PM

I am Marshall Haire. I have an old pentium 75mhz that has a 1.2 Gigabyte harddrive, 24 Megabytes of Ram. I was wondering if their was a LiveCD version of any kind that would work on this system that could have some kind of a desktop. The video card is on board, it is a old 1 Megabyte video card. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

Marshall

J.W. · 03-20-2005, 07:51 PM

Knoppix is pretty much always a good call. I'd suggest giving it a try if nothing else. Its hardware detection abilities are first rate. Good luck with it -- J.W.

You can get Knoppix right here at LQ I'd suggest going with the latest version.

syg00 · 03-20-2005, 09:31 PM

24Meg is a bit on the light side for memory.
If knoppix can't cut it, try DSL (Damn Small Linux). Less "smooth" the Knoppix, but much lighter

ferrix · 03-21-2005, 09:17 PM

I don't think any liveCD will work in 24mb. You might be able to install some sort of really stripped down system on this machine, but live CD? I doubt it.