Re: Linux for old PC

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

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?
> 
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