On 12/29/06, Norm <maillist@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Kam Leo wrote: > On 12/29/06, john s. <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> jim tate wrote: >> > Alan wrote: >> >>> Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. Great >> >>> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I doubt >> FC5 or >> >>> FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric >> >>> >> >> >> >> A small FC6 install will drop fine onto a 128MB box although for a >> small >> >> box its quicker to set up an image on a larger box, make sure it >> has the >> >> right i586 etc kernel/glibc installed and then rsync it using an >> >> external >> >> disk caddy >> >> >> >> A base system with X, xfce, sylpheed, abiword should be quite >> >> acceptable, >> >> just avoid all the heavy gnome/kde stuff. >> >> >> >> Alan >> >> >> >> >> > Yeah, will I can't FC6 to install on a HP omnibook laptop because of , >> > only 128meg of memory. >> > >> Noticed the same thing with mine. Installed okay with 384mb. >> > > Since version 10.1 OpenSuSE requires 384 MB of memory to run in live > mode. It's really a crying shame: There are so many old boxes with 256 > MB or less memory and I cannot demo either of the top Linux distros on > them. > > How do you convert people if they cannot try out the product? What > other live distros are in the same boat? > I ran Core 5 successfully on 128 of RAM; slower than I would have liked, but then the box was free So I could not complain at the speed. I found another 128 RAM and run core 6 on the same box, once again faster would be nicer but it works well enough in most cases, the only stumble is when I use Yum and the box seems to have a tendency to hang the Yum process, don't know if this is hardware or a Yum issue but not really more than a minor inconvenience. I have also successfully installed SUSE 10, Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Sarge on the same box all work well enough that I would not hesitate to install on a box that is to be donated. Currently I am using the box as a dual boot Ubuntu/core 6 (also bumped the hard drive to 30 gig and installed a newer cd rw drive))as my prime box rather than a newer faster and better box contaminated with XP (wish I could upgrade the box to any Linux version but business interest require I stay with an inferior system on one box)
I was referring to running the "Live" DVD; i.e. trial/test/demo, nothing installed on HD. Let me know if you can find a recent disto that will run on your 128 and 256 MB boxen.
