Erylon Hines wrote:
]On Wednesday 23 July 2003 05:21 pm, ThinKer wrote:
Hello All,
I've just inherited two very old machines (Original Pentium with 16MB
RAM each). I was wondering if there was anything I can download and
install on these machines. They are currently running Windows 95 and
they have Network cards already installed. I can put them on my network
and browse the Intenet. I would like to install some flavor of Linux.
Maybe a network or boot-floppy installation (since they only have 3.5
inch floppies) that will help me get more familiar with the way Linux
works.
Debian 'woody' requires only 12 mb of ram and 110 mb of hard disk space.
Debian will run on 386 or higher. Of course this is an cli (command line
interface) only system. Such as not an gui (graphical user interface).
But if you are trying to learn 'linux' the cli is what you want. You can
download with windows everything you need to get started. Debian is NOT
an auto-install system, but the installation manual is very thorough. Be
prepared to do a lot of reading & learning. Debian is a throughly modern
'linux'. It has the best 'package' system. Once it is installed. you
should never have to install it again. It can be upgrade to a new
release 'in place'.
HTH
Charles
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