Knoppix can be started from a floppy, then do a hard drive install. That will give you a debian testing/unsatble setup. Or for a lighter wieght window manager version - supposed to very good for laptops try damn Small linux or Feather linux. Both can be started from floppy and are 64mb and 128mb respectively iso size.
Lance B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Royds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: Re: 64Mb RAM > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:16:02 +1300 > > Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have a colleague who wants to put Linux on a laptop with 64Mb of RAM. Is this > >>enough for a normal distribution such as Ubuntu or Suse, running Gnome or KDE, > >>or will he need to look at one of the light-weight distributions? > > > > > > Both KDE and gnome are a little bloated for 64M RAM IMHO. > > > > But the solution, again IMHO, is not really to do with the distro, more the choice of desktop. > > > > SuSE's installer is probably configurable enough to exclude kde from the install and use something else. icewm is reportedly nice. > > Complication. It doesn't have a built-in CD (PCMCIA CD-ROM only), so he can't > boot from the CD. I see that the Debian net-install can be started from floppy, > but is there any way of starting a conventional CD install from floppy? > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > > >
