On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:34:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:07 -0400, Kai wrote: > > > >>I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or > >>some other form of linux on it. > >>Details: > >>CPU: Pentium I > >>HD: ~700MB > >>RAM: 16MB > >>2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit > >>Linksys EtherFast PC Card > >>A wireless router, however I can not seem to set up a Windows network on > >>it > >>A Sony Vaio CD-RW drive PC Card > >>an external bootable floppy drive on a special floppy port > >>A working dock with parallel, serial, PS/2 and monitor ports > >> > >>I can boot and install from a large stack of floppys (20-25 disks), > >>but I want to install from a CD or network and choose certain > >>packages. I can access the CD during installation, and after install, > >>but I can't boot from it, even using a Smart Boot Manager floppy. I > >>want to install any base packages (preferably ash, not bash), and I > >>want to use Xfce or IceWM-lite as a GUI, because the computer is so > >>limited. > > > > > >The simplest way to get started is to get an adapter so you can plug the > >hard drive into the IDE controller of a desktop computer that can boot > > Can Debian run in 16MB of RAM? > Hi, my libretto c110 has a 10gb hd, 166mhz PI and 16mb and it runs X. Its not going to win any prizes, but I can use dillo, firefox and abiword, albeit slowly. and the console is usable. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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