Re: Linux on Pentium 100
From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu (abdullah_at_ramazanoglu.tr)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:51:48 +0200
begin Måns Rullgård dedi ki:
> Abdullah Ramazanoglu <abdullah@ramazanoglu.tr> writes:
>>begin juanma dedi ki:
--8<--
>>>I have a Pentium 100 and I would like to install Linux on it. I don't
>>>know to much about it but I would like to learn. The question is that I
>>>don't know what version is the best to do that. Could anybody help me
>>>and tell me where can I get it, I mean download it from the web.
>>
>>I don't know how much RAM and disk space you've got, but don't expect
>>satisfactory graphical desktop performance from that system.
>
> I was quite satisfied running X on a Pentium 133 with 64 MB RAM back
> a number of years ago. Of course, there were no such things as gnome
> and kde back then.
Yes, if you leave Gnome and KDE out in favor of a more minimalistic
desktop environment, it would be a usable system. But for someone who
just dtarts to learn Linux, I feel that either he should go with no
GUI for learning server side of it, or go with a full blown desktop
distro and environment to learn it as a casual user.
BTW I had forgotten to state where to download them, as it's asked by
the OP.
Debian i386 (32-bit Intel and Athlon):
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Notes: Full CD set is 15 CDs. If you have broadbans internet access,
then you have 2 alternatives:
(1) Download "netinst" iso image from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
and boot from it. It will install the base system from CD, and all the
rest from internet.
(2) Download the first 2 or 3 CDs of the full CD set and install from
them. Debian packages are distributed to CDs according to their
necessity and popularity, so the first 3 CDs are probably what you
will actually need anyway. If you happen to install some less used app
that is not included in the first 3 CDs, it will be installed over the
net.
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Debian amd64 (64-bit Athlon and Opteron):
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/sarge-amd64-netinst.iso
Download (125MB) and boot from it. It is a net-installer CD and will
install the rest of the packages over internet.
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Mandrake 10.1-Official Download edition (4 CDs):
It is actually a 4 CD set, but only first 3 CDs are generally
available. You can download them from,
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/
http://www.linuxiso.org/
http://www.tlm-project.org/ (bit-torrent)
ftp://ftp.proxad.fr/mirrors
As for the 4th CD, download it from,
http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/mandrake.iso/
http://ftp.linuxcenter.ru/iso/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official/
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Mandrake 10.1-Official Powerpack edition (6 CDs):
It has got a lot of extra open source apps, as well as most of the
closed source (shareware/freeware) drivers and apps you would have to
download and install separately. Download from:
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrakeclub/silver/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Powerpack/
(userid:anonymous password:Any mail address with a valid domain part)
There's also a DVD version a step up the directory hierarchy (It
*should* be Powerpack. I didn't know earlier whether it was Powerpack
or Download edition DVD, but considering that Download edition DVD is
2GB and this one is 4.4GB, this should be the Powerpack DVD)
The site above (planetmirror) also has an AMD-64 version of Mandrake-10.0
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