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

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 <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Chris Becker <usabecker@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Hope this isn't too Newbie for a Newbies Group
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 6:44 PM

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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