[ale] Lightweight Linux with X

[Bao C. Ha]

I have installed potato, the current Debian release, on
a 486/DX2-66 with 32 Meg RAM and 400 M IDE disk.  It was
working reasonably well as a gateway/router until I
installed the development packages.  It took 6 hours to
compile a 2.4.3 kernel.  

For X, I used the fvwmn85 as the windows manager.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf 
> Of Wandered
> Inn
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:36 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X
> 
> 
> I can't help you with Debian, but I've had the best luck with 
> Slackware
> when installing Linux on low end machines.  I recently 
> installed it on a
> 486 with 20 mb memory.
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> > I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to 
> work properly on
> > our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a 
> somewhat different
> > problem at hand.
> > 
> > I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have 
> 486es on hand, with
> > 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> > 
> > I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry, 
> your computer
> > doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la 
> Microsoft even at
> > 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I 
> don't have much
> > Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of 
> trying to do it if at
> > all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an 
> Internet distro
> > mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> > suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did 
> get a running
> > machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself 
> a bit flummoxed
> > w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or 
> nothing else.
> > 
> > I expect to find and install various free edu software on 
> this thing for the
> > kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> > 
> > Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> > 
> > - Jeff
> > 
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