Penium-1 ? 8MB ??

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Tue Nov 9 17:52:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:09, YigalB wrote:
> Can I run any kind of Linux on Pentium-1, 8MB memory and 800MB of hard
> disk? 
> Since there is no CD, installation should be from floppy and network
> (it has PCI slot avilable).
>  
> The PC will be donated to handycap kids (ages 6-10) which need only
> word proccessing, software for read/write/basic math and simple games
> for fun. They activate the kyboard and mouse via scanning and select
> the desired button with switches that connect to the serial mouse.
>  
> I wonder if I can use this PC: 8MB is not much - but it is good enough
> for simple "word" needs: no macros, no tables or headers and footers.
> Just font size, and maybe underline..
>  
> Any ideas? (also for simple games,  also simple reading/math teaching
> for linux).

    Nope.  I ran RH9 in 32M on a 486 (for a router) but it wouldn't
install with anything less.  Now, I *have* seen it run on 128M with a
Cyrix 133; it actually _worked_ enough to get the basics done.

    But I think you're gonna need a bit more than 8M to do most anything
useful as a desktop machine, unless you can get an old copy of
WordPerfect that has a character-based mode.

    Sorry...
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