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02-11-2003, 07:18 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Red Hat 8.0, Debian 3.0
Posts: 20
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Laptop and Linux
Hi all,
i just wanted to ask a question:
I just got a laptop, Pentium 120 MHz 16 MB RAM, and 1 GB harddisk.
With CDrom and floppy drive.
And was wondering if i could get a linux distro on it with an X window system....
If yes, which distribution qualifies for this?
And, i want at least around 100 mb left over for my own stuff,
so i prefer a distribution thats around 800/900 MB in size
thank you
encrypted
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02-11-2003, 07:29 AM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
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you could fit a few distro's into this requirement, but maybe look at debian, or gentoo, these start small and you only install what you want.
Rich
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02-11-2003, 03:35 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Distribution: Slackware
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16mb of ram and an XFree from the 4.x.x series is going to run like a dog. I still have 1 or 2 laptops from those specs lying around. You might want to look into Peanut Linux, which is sort of built towards older machines, also there's always slackware, which is actually what I still have on the one p1 133/16 that's still around here... somewhere.
Cheers,
Finegan
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02-11-2003, 05:47 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Currently Fedora Core 3
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I have a Toshiba Sat 4030CDS with 10gb Hard Drive, 64mb memory and am running RH8/W2K dual boot. No problems with either so you should be able to get one of the many smaller distros on yours. If you can I would try and bang in some more memory and you should get one of the better distros installed.
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02-12-2003, 02:48 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sunny Southport, again.
Distribution: PCLinuxOS 0.93 and 0.92, Vector sometimes
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Try Vector Linux. During the install, select Xfree 3.3.6
I have been running it on an old IBM with 32 meg of RAM. It was fast. The download is only 225 meg, and it only needs about 1/2 a gig on you hard drive. It's supposed to run on 486s with 8 meg of RAM. Homepage -www.vectorlinux.com
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02-13-2003, 12:35 AM
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Registered: May 2002
Distribution: Manjaro
Posts: 176
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My first try at Linux was Vector Linux 1.8 on a pent.166-non MMX, 16Mb ram, Trident TGUI 9660 1Mb Video Card, 400 mb hard drive (it was peiced together from spare parts). It ran nicely just for kicks I pulled 8Mb of ram out of it and it still ran decent, Later I upped it to 64Mb of ram 4.3 Gig HD. This was on a desktop not a laptop but it still should work. All & All it's a good little distro
Bubba169
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