Hi
DSL provides a file BootFloopy.img on the ftp site to start the boot
from a floppy then finish from a CD.
DeLi Linux is also supposed to be good for older computers though I have
never tried it.
Of course, and don't hate me for saying this, there is always NetBSD.
Regards
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
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
