Penium-1 ? 8MB ??

[Timothy Payne]

Look at http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/

Good Luck
Tim...

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 09:56 -0800, Mike Noble wrote:
> 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).
> >  
> > Thanks
> > Yigal
> >    
> > 
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> 
> If you plan on having a graphical display you will need at least
> 64 Mb of memory.  The 800Mb disk is not even enough to hold the OS(
> assuming you want X, kde or gnome).  The minimum hard disk I would
> suggest would be a 10G (good luck in finding one that small).
> 
> For what you are trying to do, I would really suggest Windows 98 and
> find some free software on the Internet, there should be a lot
> out there.  I'm sure you know someone who has a copy of win98 that
> you can use.  Even win98 will be tight on an 800Mb disk and the memory
> is still a issue at 8mb.
> 
> Mike
> 
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