Linux on old laptop

[Timothy Payne]

I thought the sunsite (now ibiblio ) had a mini distro section but I
looked but they must have changed it.  I googled mini distro and found
this page that looks interesting:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/
Or for a full list: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/

Tim...

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 02:45, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX laptop with 16MB of ram, a Pentium
> > MMX 133 Mhz processor, and a 1.4GB hard drive.
> > First, is it feasible to run linux on this machine?
> 
> Definately - yes. I have it running on a 486-DX33 with 20Mb of memory
> and 4Gb HD without any problems.
> 
> > Second, how much in the way of FC can I use? I cannot use anaconda, because it
> > does not let you continue with only 16MB. I would, however, like to use rpm,
> > especially fedora SRPMs that I can compile on my faster desktop with FC2.
> 
> Don't use any of them. For something as low end as your machine, unless
> you bump up the memory greatly, you're on a hiding to nothing. I'd
> recommend you look at Slackware which works wonderfully on the older
> machines.
> 
> Unfortunately, FC (and RH) distros seem to be aimed at the newer
> machines instead of having a mechanism for text only install for lower
> end boxes (including the ability to have a command line only
> environment)
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul