[lug] Small Linux for Laptop

[David Trowbridge]

I have a friend who runs Rock Linux - seems like a nice slim dist - but be
prepared not to have a lot of the facilities that rh and derivatives
have like rpm.

Haven't seen ya in a while - if ever you're on campus and want to have
lunch, just drop me a line.

-D

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David Trowbridge
jupiter at flatirons.org
http://jupiter.babylonia.flatirons.org

"Base 8 is just like base 10 really...if you're missing two fingers"
	-Tom Lehrer

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Dan Kuester wrote:

> In my experience when you have a small amount of memory, but still enough
> to install, it tells you that and bumps you down to text mode.  That
> didn't happen this time.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:
>
> > I've heard slackware is good in situations like these.  Did you try the
> > text install of KRUD?
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> > "Dan Kuester"
> > >
> > > I recently bought a cheap but old laptop to use at school (a Toshiba
> > > Satellite 400cs, if it matters) that only has 16M of RAM, a 75Mhz Pentium
> > > processor, ~1 Gb HDD, no CD drive, and now a PCMCIA ethernet card.
> > > Problem is, when I tried to install KRUD 7.1 on it (with nfs), I anaconda
> > > told me that I didn't have enough memory to install.  I should have
> > > expected this, I suppose.  I would still like to install Linux, however.
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to a smaller, older if necessary
> > > distribution that I could put on it?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Kuester
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