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Anyone know a live distro that will run on an old Toshiba 225cds?
P133, 16mb, 2.1Gb HD
I tried a bunch with no luck (SuSe, Knoppix, Slax, Beatrix, Linspire,
ubuntu)
I want to try an OS out before loading it for the long haul.
Any suggestions (besides using the laptop as a paperweight)?
xrobevansx wrote:
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> Anyone know a live distro that will run on an old Toshiba 225cds?
> P133, 16mb, 2.1Gb HD[/color]
lol: not possible if you want to run an X-server (so no windowing
environment). otherwise: perfect for commandline linux. but that's going to
ask for some custom tweaking. don't expect to use this happily as a
personal work-machine ...
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> I tried a bunch with no luck (SuSe, Knoppix, Slax, Beatrix, Linspire,
> ubuntu)
>
> I want to try an OS out before loading it for the long haul.
>
> Any suggestions (besides using the laptop as a paperweight)?[/color]
xrobevansx wrote:[color=blue]
> Anyone know a live distro that will run on an old Toshiba 225cds?
> P133, 16mb, 2.1Gb HD
>
> I tried a bunch with no luck (SuSe, Knoppix, Slax, Beatrix, Linspire,
> ubuntu)
>
> I want to try an OS out before loading it for the long haul.
>
> Any suggestions (besides using the laptop as a paperweight)?
>[/color]
Sorry to sound negative, but 'forget it'.
Aw, come on ...you guys are being way too pessimistic!
A pentium I is still good enough for a lightwieght WM (even for a desktop,
from my experience). I'd just add a few more sticks of RAM ;)
LiveCD? I doubt it ...for most you need at least 64MB of RAM.
But if you're persistant on having a LiveCD try Slax, Dynebolic or some tiny
livecd.
good luck,
Matija
xrobevansx wrote:[color=blue]
> Anyone know a live distro that will run on an old Toshiba 225cds?
> P133, 16mb, 2.1Gb HD
>
> I tried a bunch with no luck (SuSe, Knoppix, Slax, Beatrix, Linspire,
> ubuntu)
>
> I want to try an OS out before loading it for the long haul.
>
> Any suggestions (besides using the laptop as a paperweight)?
>[/color]
Slackware .
Jonas Lyckegård wrote:[color=blue]
> Slackware .[/color]
I second to that.
I was running Slackware on my 486/DX2 8MB ram with no problems at all for
years! - X worked fine (with Blackbox and WindowMaker; and a bit choppy
with KDE-2.x)
maitja
Hi,
Try Kanotix or PC Linux or XFLD. I have tried many liveCD distros and
so far I have seen Kanotix supports most hardwares. You could see a
complete list here.
[url]http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php[/url].
Thanks,
Balaji.
Matija Šuklje wrote:[color=blue]
> Jonas Lyckegård wrote:[color=green]
> > Slackware .[/color]
>
> I second to that.
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> I was running Slackware on my 486/DX2 8MB ram with no problems at all[/color]
for[color=blue]
> years! - X worked fine (with Blackbox and WindowMaker; and a bit[/color]
choppy[color=blue]
> with KDE-2.x)
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> maitja[/color]
I'd suggest Feather linux @
[url]http://featherlinux.berlios.de/[/url] or just go to
[url]http://distrowatch.com/[/url] to find stuff there.
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Poly-p man