reply to Linux on a low-spec laptop

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" <eroger@mindspring.com>
> To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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?
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