REQ: Linux Mandrake 9.2 Images - 3 CD's - Mandrake
This is a discussion on REQ: Linux Mandrake 9.2 Images - 3 CD's - Mandrake ; The computer is an old Packard Bell 200 with 32 mg of ram. I downloaded the 10 distro CD-1
from 2 different places and when I load it, it doesn't even get started. Both CD's show the same
error when ...
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REQ: Linux Mandrake 9.2 Images - 3 CD's
The computer is an old Packard Bell 200 with 32 mg of ram. I downloaded the 10 distro CD-1
from 2 different places and when I load it, it doesn't even get started. Both CD's show the same
error when they start up. Copied your URL you listed and will try that in just a minute and do
some more searching. Will also try to find some more ram for the computer or it could be that
Packard Bell is 100% compatible with 10. Maybe that's why they went belly up. 
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Re: REQ: Linux Mandrake 9.2 Images - 3 CD's
Due to the clearing effect of the killfile
I was able to see Howie.Feldersnatch@home.com say:
> The computer is an old Packard Bell 200 with 32 mg of ram. I downloaded
> the 10 distro CD-1 from 2 different places and when I load it, it doesn't
> even get started. Both CD's show the same error when they start up. Copied
> your URL you listed and will try that in just a minute and do some more
> searching. Will also try to find some more ram for the computer or it
> could be that Packard Bell is 100% compatible with 10. Maybe that's why
> they went belly up. 
With 32 meg ram and maybe a 200 mhz machine you are a bit limited anyway.
KDE doesn't run very well without 128meg ram... Well, you can trim it to
run with 64meg. 32meg swaps continuously.
I'd think a lighter distro would be better. DSL maybe. Or deb or slack.
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Tim Fairchild - Queensland Australia
Mandriva Linux release 2007.0 (Official) for x86_64
Linux 2.6.20 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ GNU/Linux
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-9746