Re: Linux on 8mb laptop
From: Danno (TooMuchSpam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:06:52 GMT
On Wed, 05 May 2004 17:23:44 +0100,David Green <mail.david@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> What would the best distribution for an 8mb laptop (Toshiba CS110) be. I
> want to run a very very basic system only with X running one of the
> ultra-lightweight wm is what I'm after.
<snip>
>
> Are there any other good 'small' distributions I could try?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
Forget about X in 8M, TMK there is no wm light enough to do this. I have
messed around with a 4M 486 laptop, by pulling thr hard drive and installing
Slack9.1, then rebuilding the kernel (pared to its bare minimum) and installing
the drive back into the laptop, I was able to boot a 2.4.24 under Slack9.1
on it. It was a truly pathetic experience, even in the CLI (took about 5 min
to boot <grin>), but it worked. Your 8M of RAM would help there. Older versions
of Slackware, say 4.0 would probably "work" also. Additionally, look at:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lwlw1/
-- Solar-powered Linux: Slackware9.1 2.4.26 IBM ThinkPad560 1993 BRC Banzai w/60T Real Chainring & Shimano Deore XT
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