Vector with under 16mb of ram
 

Howdy,

Is vector possible with 16mb of ram, with a 166 processor?

Thanks,
Grae

PS: Suggestions of other distibutions would be fine, however, i don't want to use DSL. (Because the name is a little bit creepy to me.)

Thank again

Greetings again,

I found the system requirements, and it requires 32mb of ram... I am not sure how hard of a limit this is, but it is a requirement. I would still like suggestions about a distribution.

Grae

Damn Small Linux is a great linux, which i think would good on a 16 mb of ram

If you read the link I posted, you would see that vector 2.5 will install on a box with 16MB. Just download the earlier 2.5 version. DSL and Vector have been optimized for low memory/old hardware. There's not much else out there that will run on 16MB of ram in graphical mode.

Thanks for the advice. To kilgoretrout, I did and i suppose that is what i will do. I think, I might get some old simm ram too.

Grae

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Kilgore Trout!

I've got Ubuntu running on a 200 MMX with 64MB of RAM. It does work, but horribly slow. DSL booted that same box, but was even slower and I couldn't get the network card to work. I've seen a screenshot of DSL running on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. I hate to think what the wait time must be on trying to do anything though.

I think I'm going to get another cheap hard drive and try Vector on the same box. I checked the specs and it looks like I'm just under the wire for 5.1 standard.

Anyhoo-I'd bet it would install and run on your machine as-is but would be so slow you couldn't stand it.

My Amigo linuxes will run with 16MB RAM, plus 16MB swap. Of course anything is going to be horribly slow with this hardware, but it is possible.

Hi everyone,

I almost passed over amigo, because i thought you had to have windows on your computer in order to run it. I know it sounds strange, but i thought amigo was more of linux immulator. (Form the info in iso listing on this site/ under the subsection of reviews.) Sorry about that. I checked home page, read about minislack3 with the amigo package manager, which might be what I am going to go with. I am also checking out coyote; however, I value your recomendation particularly high, so i believe i will check out amigo.

Thanks for the input,
Grae

PS: Sorry to all you vector fans, I decided against Debian too, so don't feel bad.

You might like to have a look at RULE and/or Feather.
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/
http://www.rule-project.org/