Re: Linux distro for old laptop
From: Ayaz Ahmed Khan (resilient_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 09/13/04
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Date: 13 Sep 2004 16:39:26 GMT
"m0f14@unb.ca" typed:
> I recently picked up an old laptop, an AST Ascentia J Series J10 P75.
> I don't know much about it, but it's a P75, with about 750 mb hd, and
> 8 mb of ram. It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I've been trying
> different distributions (a few version of debian, and slackware) using
> floppies, and I have not been successful as of yet. As it only has 8
> mb of ram I've had problems with running out of memory during the
> process of booting with the boot and root disks. I have access to a
> parallel port zip drive and was wondering if it might be useful
> somehow, but I'm not looking for a zip drive distribution. So anyway,
> I'd like to put some sort of distribution on this laptop, and I was
> wondering if anyone might have some ideas as to what I might want to
> try.
Here's a HOWTO that I think might help you with what you want to do:
4-MB Laptop HOWTO
How to put a "grown-up" Linux on a small-spec (4mb RAM, <=200mb
hard disk) laptop.
http://website.lineone.net/~brichardson/linux/4mb_laptops/
A copy of the HOWTO is available in Slackware under
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/4mb-Laptops
-- Ayaz Ahmed Khan, <http://fast-ce.org/linux> "We blew it -- too big, too slow ..." -- Bill Gates talking about NT, as noted by Steven McGeady of Intel during a meeting with Gates.
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