On Fri, October 12, 2007 12:41 pm, 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? > > Thanks, > Aidan
I think the problem may be that by running a live distro you are forcing it to: (a) run "variable" files (like the home directory) in ramdisk; and (b) run with no swap file. solution: install something to the hard drive. > > -- Nick Rout
