[nmglug] Some GUI should run on 32 MB, shouldn't it?

[Tim Emerick]

I think the minimalst approach should work for you.  I once installed debian
3.0 with fluxbox and windowmaker on a Pentium 90 with 32MB of ram.  It was
slow as a dog but it worked.  I was able to surf the web and such.  Have you
tried running a knoppix CD and installing from there?

I've not tried it myself but I've heard a lot of success stories with folks
getting a linux system up and running with the autoconfigure magic that
knoppix performs.

Tim Emerick

--- WA7BSZ <wa7bsz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think Mars is right. I dont know what you intend to do with 
> > the old laptop. hope its not much .... apt-get install screen mutt
> > lynx
> > :)
> > 
> > Good Luck,
> > -- 
> > Jason Davis
> >
> 
> Isn't there hope of some GUI operating with 32 MB?  I know RH 7.2
> wouldn't even install on my old MMX 200 MHz with 32 MB, well, that is,
> the GUI wouldn't install.  I could certainly have used it as a firewall
> computer, my own large firewall router with NAT.  But I wanted to
> actually use it.  Win2k wouldn't install on it either, just NT or 98. 
> Same with my 150 MHz Compaq laptop which doesn't have a CD player in
> it.  I haven't figured out how to install Linux on that.  I tried
> acouple times and it crashed until I learned about nomce.  Then I got
> further, but never to a real install.  Partly because it has a 2 GB
> drive.  It was just quite user unfriendly and more interesting projects
> came up and I have never gone back to it.  
> 
> A friend installed RH 6.2 on a computer with a small amount of RAM,
> perhaps 32 MB or 64 MB, I don't know which, and that ran pretty well on
> an old 200 MHz pentium.  I have the RH6.2 CDs.  
> 
> Kim
> 
> 
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