[ale] Old Laptop

Jim Kinney jkinney at moat.localnetsolutions.com
Fri Jun 27 09:44:18 EDT 2003


Either an old distro from around the time the laptop came out or a new slackware. I have an old P90 with 16MRAM that I ran RH 5.2 on. I have an older 25Mhz 486 with a 20M (that's an "M" not a "G") hard drive that I ran an ancient slackware on. I think it had 4MRAM. 

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:59:10AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Slackware.  I've got a 486, 12 meg ram, 200 mb drive.  I installed slack 
> on this beauty.  Unless you can at least up the memory you'll not have 
> any luck with the larger dists.  I don't know about Debian.
> 
> Robert Coggins wrote:
> >Hey all!
> >
> >I was just wondering...
> >
> >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!
> >
> 
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