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Old 03-20-2005, 08:33 PM   #1
marsh58
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LiveCD Distro Question


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.

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Old 03-20-2005, 08:51 PM   #2
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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.
 
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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
 
Old 03-21-2005, 10:17 PM   #4
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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.
 
  


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