As far as I know, slackware is one of the fiew (if not the only) distro that'll install easily on old hardware. I'm not sure how it'll work on an original pentium machine as I got rid of all mine a couple years ago, but I recently installed slackware 13 on a p2/233 with 512mb ram in around 3 hours (this was using the 2 cds, as this machine doesn't have a dvd-rom drive). On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image, > and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The > machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram, > with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive. > > The installation went on for over 24 hours, and I powered off the box > at that point, before it completed. Part of that time was spent > idling overnight, waiting at the popularity contest > question. Downloading standard packages, and updates, is also a > contributing factor here. All that aside, while > things would probably have gone faster if I had used a dvd, or had my > own debian mirror locally, I think the major bottle neck here is the > age, and abilities of the machine in question. > > I recall someone on here saying that the only distro that person could > install on his old laptop is slackware. This then begs the question, > is slackware the only distro that can still be installed on older > hardware in a reasonable amount of time, (say 3-5 hours from start to > finish), or are there others? Thanks > for any feedback. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAku7kDAACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDGeACgqm4SMF44C1uCsm34IhFmXNg2 > BJkAnRCwtbySVB0QRmIqK04V87q7kqMm > =eKmF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs. -- Dennis Ritchie
