My soekris board has much less than that and it runs voyage linux ok... stock(ish) debian kernel.
Steve On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:16 +1300 Chevhq Car <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seems like the wrong distro to me, as there would not be enough ram to > suport the ramdrive. > Use the option to install to the hard drive with no acpi, and video > set to vga, and see what happens > i am doing the same thing on a very acient bit of silicon, and have > made headway with those settings > cheers chris t > > = = = Original message = = = > > 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? > > Thanks, > Aidan > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. > Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.
