On 9 Mar 00, at 16:46, Brian Galbraith wrote:
> Be kind to me here....I have a v old labtop.....2m RAM and a 40M hard
> drive. Do I have a snowball's chance of finding anything GNU/ Linuxwise to
> run on it. Don't expect or want it to do much...just an interesting little
> project.
Most modern distributions require a minimum of 4MB physical RAM (and they
don't really recommend installing with only that amount). For debian it
required booting off a special lowmem (minimum 4MB) boot disk which asks
you to create a small minix partition to expand to/install from instead of
using a ram disk (which is normally how it's done). Modern slackware
distributions have very detailed, but very manual low memory installation
instructions (again 4MB minimum). You might try an old slackware
distribution.
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