[ale] Old Laptop

[Geoffrey]

John Mills wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> On 27 Jun 2003, Robert Coggins wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have an old 90Mhz   yes that is Niner Zero laptop that I would like to
>>put linux on.. I tried my  latest CD of RH 8.0 but of course no go
>>because of memory.  It has 16 M RAM  any suggestions on distro and
>>version?  Thank!
> 
> 
> I put [updated] RH-6.2 and fvwm2 into a similar system and it ran, but
> then I managed to scarf 32MBy more cheap RAM on eBay and it is _much_ more
> satisfactory.

Even if you can just borrow memory for the install, you can successfully 
install various dists on a box then remove the memory.  Problem is, it's 
often difficult to find older memory that fits, particularily on a laptop.

I recently did a full gui install of SuSE 8.1 on a p166. During install 
it had 64mb, now it's running with 32mb just fine.  It did have 16mb, 
but bogged down pretty bad when I fired up X, so I dropped the extra 
16mb in there to speed up the boot process.

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