Bob Heise on 28 Nov 2007 13:53:14 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Old notebook Linux install

  • From: Bob Heise <heise2k@gmail.com>
  • To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Old notebook Linux install
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:59:11 +0100
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Den Wednesday 28 November 2007 08.25.00 skrev Doug Crompton:
> I have a very old Hitachi notebook - 32M ram and P3 from about 1994. I was
> able to run DSL (damn small linux) live from CD on it but blaked at Ubuntu
> saying it could not boot and used CD2 - well there is no CD2. I am using
> the alternate install CD (for low memory systems). Anyone have any ideas
> on what will install on something like this? Not a big deal. I was going

Slackware. It has an ncurses installer that should work with 32mb RAM, it's 
technically possible or was possible with 4 if you activate your swap 
partition before starting setup.

-Bob

> to throw it away but thought I would play a little. It has Win98 on it
> now. 800x600 screen.
>
> Doug
>
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