On Mon, 17 May 1999, Daniel Knapp wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Some days ago someone gave his very old laptop to me and I want to install
>Linux on it. Is it possible to install Linux on such an old laptop?
>
>80386, 4 MB RAM, 60 MB HDD.
>
You'll get a base system on, no data to speak of, no Dos partition and
definitely no X windows. It would effectively be little more than a
console. I will probably be flamed for saying this, but you could have
Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11 in under 15Mb :-(. Either way, the hd size is
the limit. But if it's that old, I'd check if the HD could be swapped
out for a bigger one. Many old 286s had 3.5" disks. Other options are
pcmcia ram, and hard disk, if you want to throw money at it.
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Regards
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Declan Moriarty
