I have run a hard drive install of Knoppix on such a machine, choose one of the light wieght desk tops for snappier performance (relatively that is) than the default KDE. It will baulk at starting live from the CD with just 32mb of RAM, so hit f2 at startup & choose the option knoppix 2, which will prevent x11 from starting.
Even better option, copy the "knoppix" from the CD to the hardrive in the root of a fat32 partition, start booting knoppix in the usual way with the CD (but still choose the run level 2 option above) but eject the CD as soon as the initrd has loaded, it will search for (and hopefully find) the knoppix folder and continue loading from there. The hard disk install will be faster and less stress-full on your CD drive that way. At the prompt just type knx-hdinstall and follow the prompts. I prefer MEPIS these days (a derivative of knoppix) - but it installs with a gui from KDE, so not so easy on a low spec machine (you are welcome to try though, let me know if you want to borrow the disks). It would work fine with 64mb's so maybe you could add some ram. Oh, it also dosn't have the light wieght desk tops, so maybe not so good. Lance B -----Original Message----- From: "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" Sent: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:45:56 +1300 To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" Subject: RE: Newbie Advice In reality, a machine with low specs like that, IMHO, is only good for either a firewall or an LTSP client. Gareth might disagree 'cos I think he runs a minimalist Gentoo laptop on similar specs. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Cosgrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 18 October 2004 4:37 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie Advice I have just been given an old computer and I thought I could use it to learn Linux on It has 32 mb ram, 4 gb HD, and 166 cpu Any ideas on what os I could use to learn Ciao Kevin
