I thought the sunsite (now ibiblio ) had a mini distro section but I looked but they must have changed it. I googled mini distro and found this page that looks interesting: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ Or for a full list: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/ Tim... On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 02:45, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX laptop with 16MB of ram, a Pentium > > MMX 133 Mhz processor, and a 1.4GB hard drive. > > First, is it feasible to run linux on this machine? > > Definately - yes. I have it running on a 486-DX33 with 20Mb of memory > and 4Gb HD without any problems. > > > Second, how much in the way of FC can I use? I cannot use anaconda, because it > > does not let you continue with only 16MB. I would, however, like to use rpm, > > especially fedora SRPMs that I can compile on my faster desktop with FC2. > > Don't use any of them. For something as low end as your machine, unless > you bump up the memory greatly, you're on a hiding to nothing. I'd > recommend you look at Slackware which works wonderfully on the older > machines. > > Unfortunately, FC (and RH) distros seem to be aimed at the newer > machines instead of having a mechanism for text only install for lower > end boxes (including the ability to have a command line only > environment) > > TTFN > > Paul
