Re: linux advice on old laptop

Okay, I've gone for Damn Small Linux. I'm downloading an iso now and
think I know what I'm doing - I can burn it with my Vista laptop,
which I remember having the iso-burning function in one of its
applications. So I'd next wipe the hard drive of my win98 laptop, the
Toshiba I mentioned? (My W2K pc I mentioned considering setting up
for dual-boot is a third machine). I think I need to re-read a couple
of things because maybe it was suggested DSL is just for running from
cds and USB pens. I'm rambling...

The magazine CDs I mentioned don't seem to have a simple setup
application on them; this is why, for me, they aren't as
straightforward-seeming as the usual o.s. setup. It's as-yet foreign
to me.

Ooh, it's downloaded - let's have a look...

On Nov 24, 11:44 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"poachedeggs" <poachede...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Could I have some advice about installing linux on a ten-year-old
Toshiba laptop.  Is it viable?  I have two other machines with W2K and
Vista, but this laptop is unsellably old and I'm curious about Linux.
10 gig hd, 80 meg RAM, I think 200 or 300 mhz speed.  If I could have
an operating system, that doesn't look too dull but without slowng the
laptop down, and with OpenOffice and Firefox, that would do.  If the
most poular versions are too swish for this old machine, can you
advise an optimum instsllation of some other linux and perhaps
summarise the steps for a near buffoon?

I can't quite get my head round the installation, either - this thing
about burning 'iso' images.  Is that like the equivalent of when I
copy video and audio folders from a dvd and burn it onto a new one to
make a copy?

I have a couple of linux magazine cds/dvs but I couldn't fathom the
process - it's not as simple as loading a dvd o.s., for the layman.

I was considering a dual boot with my W2K pc also, but it sounds risky
as I don't have the Windows 2000 cd if things go wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Not really enough RAM for win2k  (I'd suggest 128 as the minimum)

but I am sure that Damn Small Linux will do the job

I've put it on plenty of p1's with just 64 megs of RAM
and even got it running on a 486

Just a 50 meg download!

http://damnsmalllinux.org/

.

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