Hi Ram is cheap at the moment, and might it not be simpler to fill in a couple of slots if available?
I have plenty of old fashined working dim's if some one wants some. Think from memory about 120 megs of the stuff Cheers Chris T = = = Original message = = = On Tue, October 23, 2007 10:39 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: >> Should I resort to an old Linux distribution? Or is there some way I >> can build a Linux system on my installed Debian system for the old PC? > > Read and learn: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ > > You can build your own system (on the running Debian system), but it might > be > sufficient for you to read about the boot process and learn how a Linux > system starts up. Maybe you can go on to figure out what the problem with > your live CD is. > > I built an LFS image for a system such as yours. It was a minimal system > to > boot and connect to an NFS server. I built a kernel on my (Debian) system > and put together a boot image as described. It was actually a fun > learning > experience (and I don't mean it euphemistically, it actually worked!). > > Have fun! > > Andrew > > Probably easier is to install from a debian or ubuntu cd running without X. Or install a system onto a hard drive in another computer. I did comment in the earlier thread that a live cd was unlikely to work because of restricted RAM, but that an installed system should work. Now that we know its only 16M that might be a false hope too, but its certainly the thing to try. -- Nick Rout ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.
