> Hey,
>
> I was thinking of trying an install on a Toshiba Satelite: T1960T laptop with 8K
> ram ,color vga display, 200 mb HD currently running WINdoze 3.11 pcmia 28.8 k
> fax/modem.... is such a thing possible? Is there too little RAM? What about a
> tiny install ? any suggestions?
>
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> Make it idot proof, and someone will make
> a better idiot
>
If you really mean 8K ram, that's just not gonna cut it. 8 megs is
a bit sparse, but some people run on much less. I haven't been able
to find a reference to the T1960T anywhere, but I'm guessing it's
some kind of 486.
Red Hat probably isn't going to fit on a 200mb drive too well, but
you could consider a small slackware or debian install. Also, there's
some small linuxes, such as ZipSlack, peanut, and monkey. ZipSlack
is a part of Slackware releases, I'm not sure where to find peanut
or monkey.(Ray? you know these better than me). I've done zipslack
before, the base is about 70megs, and that includes a lot of standard
utilities, but no X. You could probably fit a decent X install into
another 50megs. that leaves what, 70-80 for user. You're not going
to be able to run gnome or KDE on this thing, and netscape _will_
be slow, but If you run a minimal window-manager, such as blackbox,
or fvwm2 or scwm, or twm(i'd vote for blackbox out of these) X would
be all right. You can find blackbox at
http://blackbox.alug.org/
and a list of small distributions(although not peanut or monkey)
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/console/mini%20distributions.html
hope this helps
greg
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