Minimum RAM for HD Install.

haelen · 10-17-2006, 01:49 AM

A friend has offered me an old Laptop. The maximum RAM it can take is 64mb.

Will this be enough for Puppy to run?

TIA,
Tim

Eric21 · 10-17-2006, 04:29 PM

G'day Tim

Should work ok.
Have 233Mhz Dell with 96MB using puppy 2.10r1, works very well.
If puppy runs from CD then create a linux swap partition on the HD.
There is a bug with 2.11 HD install, so use 2.10r1 at the moment.

Eric

haelen · 10-18-2006, 12:39 AM

G'day Eric,

I guess I could also install Puppy on the HD (which is only 1.5GB).

Cheers,
Tim

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric21

Should work ok.
Have 233Mhz Dell with 96MB using puppy 2.10r1, works very well.
If puppy runs from CD then create a linux swap partition on the HD.
There is a bug with 2.11 HD install, so use 2.10r1 at the moment.

Eric

Eric21 · 10-18-2006, 02:52 AM

Tim

Yes, give it a try. Puppy should only take up less than 300mb.

Enjoy
Eric

marksouth2000 · 10-20-2006, 02:28 PM

Last month, someone gave me a pentium 166MHz portable with 16MB of RAM. I came *this* close to getting it to boot Puppy (it thrashes forever at the stage of loading the desktop). I reckon it would have worked with 32MB, or even 24. And I regularly run Puppy 2.02 installed on my 133MHz P1 with 80MB and it runs pretty well. Not exactly fast, but usable. Of course, dillo and ted run a little more smoothly than Seamonkey and Abiword!

marksouth2000 · 10-29-2006, 11:08 AM

A little update to my previous post. One of the other contributors from the main Puppy Forum made me a gift of some old laptop EDO RAM, which I put into the machine I mentioned above. So the present system config is:

166MHz Pentium 1
40MB RAM
1.6GB hard disk with 128MB Linux swap partition

Puppy 2.02 (the nearest CD I had to hand) booted and ran just fine. Not very fast, but usable. Do note that I haven't yet tried installing Firefox or OpenOffice, and I probably won't be using this as my primary development machine! 8)

gatewaysolo9100 · 12-27-2006, 10:42 PM

It should work, I use a old notebook with 96mb of ram.

darinbolson · 12-29-2006, 08:17 PM

I had an older pc with only 64MB of ram. I used some other distro's liveCD to create a linux swap partition on it prior to running puppy on it. When I reformatted the HD to make it one big NTFS partition (I did this because I was selling the pc) puppy would no longer boot. I think I was using 2.01 at the time.