What about those that will run on a DOS partition? Distrowatch had some that were like that, but some may be out-dated now. Joan in Reno
--- On Thu, 3/31/11, Chris Becker <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chris Becker <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Hope this isn't too Newbie for a Newbies Group To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 6:44 PM On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, dlp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Puppy will run on it. Puppy is base on Ubuntu. > > david Will the Puppy Linux live CD boot on 64 MB? Even Barry's version (wary) is around 80 MB, and the whole thing needs to load in RAM right? I suppose if you had formatted a swap partition ahead of time, or copied the files off the CD directly onto the harddrive for a frugal install, there would be no issue. Is there a boot option needed to only load essential files instead of the entire thing? > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:26:31 -0400 > J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:22, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have an older HP computer, not this one, that has a Pentium II > > > processor and 64 MB > > > Ram. > > > > > > Would this be a good candidate for Linux and if so any particular > > > version? Just looking > > > for something to play around with, maybe surf the web email and such. > > > > Yeah... you're going to be hard pressed to get any modern linux > > running on that... You may be able to get one of the small distros > > like Puppy or Damn Small Linux running on it. It's possible you can > > get something with no GUI running like a server oriented distro, or > > something along those lines. > > > > To be honest, it's been forever since I ran anything with 64mb of RAM. > > If you can find more RAM somewhere and get it to 256 you'll have a > > much better chance. It'll still be horribly slow, but a lot better > > than with 64MB. > > > > Cheers > > > > jeff > > -- > dlp > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
