Any experience? Dear vh:
Does system have ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive? Yes. I've installed Slackware in smaller resource systems. SuSEv7.0 in Pentium-166-laptop with 16 M of RAM using fwvm95/fwvm2 window manager(s), Xwindows, I can use Netscape Communicator v4.77 with some swap thrashing. ;-) I have since upgraded the laptop to 80 M of RAM. ;-) I am currently working on installing SuSEv7.0 into Pentium-120 with 40 M of RAM and < 2 G hd space, so far, I need more hd space for GUI. ;-) If you wish a GUI system (Xwindows), you may be limited to a 'smallish' window manager; twm, fvwm2, fvwm95,... Not KDE or GNOME environment. :-| I recommend setting up a swap partition of double your RAM. (if you need more virtual memory than this, you need more RAM ;-) If you try Slackware, I will help. I recommend Slackware v8.0 to start: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/ HTH, Chuck vh wrote: > > Hello List. > I want to run Linux on rather old PC. > The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard > Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it > hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I was told that this > distributive should work on my computer). Also I tried to set up > Mandrake, but of cause it's failed die to low amount of RAM. Do I > need older releases? But which ones should I try to use? > Yes, I was reading a lot of FAQs and HOW-TOs, but I can't install > anything at all. And I belive the problem is only in installation. > Do I think right? What should I do? What distribution should I use? > Can I setup Linux to my HDD on another PC so as it will be working > lately when I plug it into my one? Any configuration hacks is not so > terrible for me. I'm thinking now to run FBSD, but Linux certainly > will be preferable. Can no more work with windows... Any experience? > > -- > Martchukov Anton aka VH mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 155279978 > > "_Theory_ is when you know everything but nothing works. > _Practice_ is when everything works but no one knows why. > _IN THIS PLACE_ we're combining theory and practice - nothing works > and no one knows why!" > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
