I have a old IBM Thinkpad 600e Laptop I like to putter around with and I was looking for a Linux Package to install on it that did not use a whole lot of memmory. Here are the Spec for the Laptop

Mobile Pentium II 363Mhz Processor
256 Megs of Memmory
CD-ROm ( have to fiddle with it to keep it working)
60GB HD
1 USB port
IBM mouse button Pointer
3.5" 1.44Mb Floppy (shares the same bay as the CDrom


I don't want to run it from a CD rom as the drive like to stop working every so often, I have to turn it off and reset the drive in the cradle. I tried to install the Damn Small Linux Package it seems to work but not all the time, mostly I like the Remote Desktop program that it come with it. It lets me RD a 2003 server I have. Does anybody have any suggestions. The Thinkpad was purchased a few years ago at the Goodwill Computer Works and it had Windows XP Home, but I figured Linux would be a better OS on this little old Laptop. I use to use it to read Microsoft books Files (boks I download from Baen Books) and I would run a OBD2 Diagnostic software to get diagnostic codes and information from My car. Reading books weather MS book or HTML I would like to still do but I have since moved the OBD2 software to my Sony Viao, so it's not a big deal to loose. The Remote desktop is a feature I do want to keep.


Thanks in advance,
Robert
kc5jmr@grandecom.net

I use Puppy 4.2.1, I did full install to the disk, I only have 128 RAM.

I mostly only use GParted with it, so I can't tell you anything about the software, but when I do use it its fast.

I too would suggest Puppy is worth a try. I can't tell you what-all it includes for software (my roommate uses it more than I do), but it does seem to have all the basic stuff, and is quite complete and very functional for such a small distro. It's really quite nice IMO, and installed on our super-old Toshiba 4090-XDVD laptop very easily while most distros won't even boot on that old crap.. Puppy boots really quick from the HDD, and you can install it to the HDD after booting the CD, using the easy-to-use installer tool on the desktop.

Best of success,

Sasha

I had a similarly spec'd laptop (before it died ) except with 512 megabytes of memory. I tried out Puppy. It worked really well, but I wasn't satisfied with it. I tried Mepis and Damn Small, with same results. I then installed Slackware 12.2 on it, and it worked so well, I kept it running Slackware. Occasionally, I would boot other live-CD's but nothing stuck.

I would recommend Slackware, based on my experiences, but take your time with it - if you're not comfortable with Slackware, try Vector or Wolvix. The Slackware derivatives will run just as happily as true Slackware itself, at least in my experience.

a base install of debian then after installation apt-get install lxde and apt-get install synaptic will give you a lightweight debian desktop with synaptic package manager.

Pclinuxos now has an lxde program that is 313 MB and should run on that computer,

Lets ad insult to injury.

Now that I have downloaded Puppy the CDrom has just died. The floppy still works at least. How do I go about installing puppy from a floppy drive.



RObert

I dont know about that, but if you already have partitions made, and Grub, you could do a Hard disk drive install.

I'm just gonna order a new CD ROm for it They are pretty cheap and I will deal with it later thanks for the help


RObert