Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Hope this isn't too Newbie for a Newbies Group

Debian has the "Net Install" that does that. Minimum files and download
the rest when you are there. That can be done on ethernet broadband/dsl
or wirelessly. look for term Net Install.

On 3/31/2011 9:44 PM, Chris Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, dlp<dvdposton@gmail.com> 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<dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:22, Ken<kshansen@twcny.rr.com> 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
>>

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