Billy Tallis wrote: > 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? [...] > Second, how much in the way of FC can I use? I cannot use anaconda, [...] > It seems to be an uphill battle, as knoppix is hard to get working and > doesn't seem to realize that the screen is only 800x600. Four suggestions: 1. Your laptop is a prime candidate for a RULE installation (http://www.rule-project.org). They have an installer that will install RH9 (with X) onto your laptop. FC2 support is in the works. They have a user group to help with installation. 2. DamnSmallLinux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) is like Knoppix, but only 50MB. It can be installed to your hard drive, but serious upgrading is difficult. 3. To get knoppix to work 800x600, type the following at boot-up: boot: knoppix screen=800x600 At the boot: prompt, you can hit F2 and/or F3 to get more options. 4. If you can afford to upgrade your memory... by all means do it. I was running FC2 on a Celeron 800MHz with 128MB and it was pretty sluggish. When I upgraded to 256MB it runs quite nicely. Feels like I upgraded the processor. -- Gabriel M. Beddingfield
