use pygmy linux, its cool, but don't expect X to run..
In fact I am using it on a notebook with 8M Ram and 256Mb hdd. which is
serial connected to my machine using ppp
-shyam
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote:
>
>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:26:58AM -0800, shiv maurya wrote:
>> >
>> > i have 486 dx4 75mhz cyrix system at my home , having
>> > 20 mb ram, 1gb hard drive, mother board is of sis. i
>> > want to know which version of linux i can run on my
>> > system
>> >
>> > what is the minimum configuration for linux 7.1
>> > what should be the cpu, ram , hard drive ect.
>> >
>> ---end quoted text---
>>
>> Yours is a rather old system and it cannot take most of the
>> newer distros. You need to stick to Kernel-2.2.x, and since
>> you do not have much disk space (1gb), restrict the number
>> of apps (and specially X apps) on the box. The distros that
>> are likely to run smoothly on this box are:
>>
>> a) Debian potato
>> b) Slackware 7.1 or less
>> c) RH 6.2 or less
>> d) SuSE 6.4 or less
>>
>
>RH 6.1 and 6.2 did not install on my cyrix 486 dx-4 box, with 24 megs
>and sis mobo. very similar to the original posters hardware. even the
>text install sucked. RH 6.0 worked though. stick with a really light
>weight window manager, lesstif, fvwm(2) worked quite well.
>
>mario
>
>
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