On Friday 12 October 2007 12:41, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>   I have a very very very old PC--I'm serious, this thing only has
> about 64 MB of RAM, and a 100 MHz Pentium CPU, and a BIOS that can
> only boot from a hard drive or a floppy drive--which I have tried to
> get Damn Small Linux running on, but it fails to boot the live CD,
> and I think this is because it fails silently when setting up the RAM
> disk which makes trouble later when it tries to read/write files in
> the RAM disk.  In short: I think it is built to run with more memory
> than this computer has.  Of course I already have a working Linux box
> with more power than this antiquated pile of silicon, but I thought I
> might have some fun, and maybe even show it off at the next software
> freedom day.
>
>   So, should I try an older version of DSL?  Or am I using the wrong
> distro for the job?

If you want to use an old distro I have them in my archives.  E.g. debian 
1.3.1, Red Hat 6 etc.

Phil.

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