I tried debian a few days ago, it was really slow, The installer booted ok and I loaded the set of four 'driver' floppies but couldn't find any kind of thing for my parallel port cd drive. I neglected to say so earlier, however, the thing does have a pport cddrive, and a 3com 3c509b ethernet card. I decided to go ahead anyway and (finally) came to the module selection thing, After letting the thing take forty-five minutes to load the 'ide-floppy' module into the 'to be built' kernel, I shut the thing down. It was late and I was tired. On Wednesday 21 August 2002 11:59 am, you wrote: > Well..a year ago I broke out an old linux CD I have (Linux Developer's > Resource - by InfoMagic 1994), and put a slackware version on that worked. > I was working with a 386 sx 16, 80 mb HD and 4 mb ram. Only had a floppy > and a serial port. I got a base system up and then used NFS w/ the PPP > link over serial port to my other box to do the rest. (kernel .99 > something I believe) > > Now, in todays world..I would use a distro like Debian. You don't get the > default bloat of redhat etc. The last Debian install I did (w/o X) was > under 150mb, and I know I could have gotten smaller without much trouble. > > -dallas > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J" > To: "PLUG" > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:32 AM > Subject: Linux on a low-spec laptop > > > Does anybody know of a small-ish linux for a 486/50mhz laptop /w 8mb ram > > and > > > a ~320mb hard drive? > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss