--- In [email protected], Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:37:23AM -0700, Jeanette wrote:
> > zoobs72 wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I've tried Ubuntu, Mandrake and Suse thus far ..
> > >
> > > The Ubuntu 7.0.4 install fails on my Thinkpad R30 ...
> > >
> >
> > I would try Sam Linux..Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux or Zenwalk
>
> I would add Vector Linux to the list, supposedly runs well on older
> hardware, but I've never tried it on anything less than a 1 gig CPU with
> 512 megs of DDR.
I've gotten Vector to run quite nicely on 450MHz and 333MHz
Pentium-2's with 128MB or RAM(!). The only caveat -- one has to
partition the HD manually *before* invoking the installer, or else you
have to stop the install and try again after partitioning. But
Vector's version of Gparted is top-notch! It's a good distro.
With 192MB or RAM, zoobs should be able to run something better than a
"minimalist" distro like DSL, Puppy, or Feather. I save those for
128-or-less machines.
At the R30's hardware level, I'd try PCLinuxOS, Monoppix, and Fedora
7. I've gotten those to run on similar machines. I've never actually
installed Monoppix, so that's LiveCD only, but the other two I have.
I know for a fact SuSE isn't happy with less than 256MB. I wouldn't
try anything featuring late version of KDE (3.5+) on the R30 either --
too graphics-intensive.
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