old comp

da_boss · 03-12-2005, 02:05 PM

I have an old laptop with 25 MHz cpu, 8 mb ram and about 120 mb hdd. It has only fdd drive (no internet connection possibility, no cdrom, etc)
I want to have linux on it (a simple one, with textmode only, soem text editors, compilators, etc. What should I chose? Where can I get it?

Brain Drop · 03-12-2005, 02:33 PM

perhaps Damn small linux

da_boss · 03-12-2005, 03:34 PM

maybe someone knows other suitable linux distributions?

cause loading dsl stops and the system says to me :
" No coprocessor found and no math emulation present.
Giving up."

gdivens51 · 03-12-2005, 04:46 PM

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis...ions/baslinux/

http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/oldpc/

J.W. · 03-12-2005, 05:24 PM

Maybe a really old version of Slackware. Obviously a machine with the specs you've listed is going to be very limited in terms of what it can do but it could be a interesting exercise. Good luck with it -- J.W.

da_boss · 03-13-2005, 05:42 AM