Re: Hi & Distro Recomendation for newbie

If I remember right, the last version of windows that ran on 8mb was Win
3.1 or Win 3.11 which was all the rage about the time the first versions
of Linux were just coming out. I think W95 (the first version) would
just barely boot on 8mb.
You might check this out, I think it was based on slack 7.1 (maybe
earlier), if you can still find it.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html

Douglas McIntosh wrote:
> Thanks foar the tip. I need something for rescue and file transfer in
> the dedicated computers in my lab. These have all of 8 Mb of memory and
> Knoppix won't run. Likewise Gentoo. If the early versions of Windows
> will run with 8 Mb why won't Linux???
>
> Douglas
>
>
>>Slax is a Live Linux distro based on Slackware. They have several
>>variations. Sounds like you may like the "Frodo" edition which is only
>>a 47MB download.
>>
>>http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
>>
>>"SLAX Frodo edition is the console base for all other SLAX releases. It
>>doesn't contain almost anything, only full working Linux command prompt
>>and drivers."
>>
>>Personally being a Windows admin I like the desktop. I chose the
>>"standard" edition which has KDE 3.4 ready to go. I booted into the
>>Live system and had it installed onto a laptop in under 30 minutes.
>>
>>Not to mention you can use the Live Scripts on this sight to "roll your
>>own" distro.
>>
>>Good luck,
>>Tim
>
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Received on Thu Sep 15 14:10:50 2005