1.2 gb hard drive, 166 mHz cpu, 32mb ram.
I've installed Slackware 9.1, but it doesn't work right, can't do a cd in cli, won't complete download of most web pages etc. Everything runs very slowly (using KDE).
Wondered if I missed something on the install, or maybe it just isn't possible with so little hd space.
I know about Amiga, but have dial-up, so download is not an option.

Anyone done this successfully? If so tips would be appreciated.

I inherited a similar system recently, only it has a 2.5 GB drive on it. I couldn't get knoppix to load on it, except in text mode. I think you'll need more memory if you want a gui. It'll still be slow.

I have slackware 9.1 on an even lesser computer. It only works in text mode.

Back before the first of the year, gnashley posted the following HOWTO on a minimal Slackware install.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gnashley/...ix8_1howto.htm


The following is from that website:

In January 2004 this project was renamed AMIGO Linux. A new HOWTO is posted on http://www.amigolinux.org/index.htm

For historical reasons I have left this HOWTO here. I encourage you to see the AMIGO HOWTO INDEX where you will find links to other HOWTO's including the Crazy 3-Legged 20MB Slackware. You can also download 22MB, 32MB and 42MB mini-ZipSlack-compatible systems. You can also download the full AMIGO Linux which has Knoppix-style automatic hardware detection and configuration. Easiest way yet to install a Slackware-compatible system!

Took another look at Amiga, and thought with wget it might be possible, however I looked at the install page, and saw that install requires FAT or DOS partition. I have neither, on either computer.
So looks like no go.

Perhaps a FreeDOS boot disk is what you need, if that is the only problem.
Good Luck.

1.2 GB drive, tiny?

I have Slackware 9.0 installed in 8MB.

Are you saying that the total capacity of the drive is 1.2G or that the partition you are attempting to install Slack onto is 1.2G? If it's the former, how is the disk partitioned and what are their sizes? You would not be able to do a full Slack installation in only 1.2G but if you selectively pick and choose what you install I think it's possible to make it work. -- J.W.

MS3FGX, can you post or e-mail me your installed package list? i have done a couple of HOWTO's on min install and would like to know what you are running. One day I had something running around 5.6MB bit was built around busybox. Is that what you have or real Slack packages. Please tell us abit about your system. gnashley@earthlink.net

They are all Slackware packages (unless I compiled it from source).

Though to be fair, it only takes 8 MB on the disk, since the entire file system is highly compressed. When it decompresses into RAM, it is 26 MB, so maybe that is cheating.

But if we are talking about getting an OS on a small drive, it really doesn't matter if it is compressed or not, just so long as it doesn't take up much space on the drive.

I created it for embedded devices, it boots from a Compact Flash card, which has a 12 MB partition to hold the compressed file system image (8MB) and the monolithic kernel (1.5MB), and an ext2 partition that it can mount as /etc so that changes made to the system survive a reboot.

It includes telnet/FTP/SSH/DHCP servers and clients, SMB support (mounting only), Ettercap, nmap, and a host of TCP/IP debuging tools. Next thing I want to add is Samba. Maybe Apache too. There is still a lot I want to do with it, and it is still bigger than I want.

I can put a package list together, but it has been a few months since I have worked on it, so I'll need to find my notes.

A packagelist can be created using the following command:

Take your time... love to see a bit more about your distro. i could host that for you if you want to make it available for download.