[ale] Old Laptop

[coggiale at cogginsnet.com]

I did try this with Redhat 8.0 but it stopped saying that I did not have enough 
memory.  What stinks is that I can either ONLY have the CDDrive in or ONLY the 
FDD and the CDDrive will not boot.  I have to install dos then use loadlin.  
But its cool!

Thank you all for all your suggestions.  I think I am going to try out 
Slackware.  I have never used it before but I have always wanted to.  This will 
be a great opportunity.  Thanks again!

-Rob

Quoting Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com>:

> Just curious ... even if installing in text mode and selecting a server
> config, does Red Hat 9 refuse to install if RAM < 32 MB?  I also have a
> 90 MHz Pentium-based laptop (albeit 24 MB RAM) in my collection.  RH 7.3
> did install, even with XFree86 running 800x600 8-bit color, but that
> version of GNOME seemed to cause some extremely random crashes ...
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > 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!
> > 
> > Slackware 8.1 with XFCE runs ok for me on a 133 w/24MB.
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