Re: [debian-knoppix] What about old notebooks?
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:48:04PM +0200, Christian Perle wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 21:36:27 +0200, Erik Schanze wrote:
>
> > > Toshiba notebook with 16 Mb of ram and about 800 Mb HD. The procesor is
> [...]
> > I'm quite sure every knoppix will run an that notebook, if it can boot
> > from CD.
>
> No. Knoppix versions with kernel >= 2.4.20 need at least 20 MB Ram for
> booting, even in text mode. Knoppix 3.0 (july 2002, kernel 2.4.18)
> runs on 16 MB Ram in text mode.
>
> However, if you want X, you should use an old distro with kernel 2.0.x,
> old glibc and XFree 3.x.
Try WhiteDwarfLinux, it's pretty small and should run with old and slow
machines too. As Christian said, avoid newer 2.4 kernels. WD Linux might
still have a 2.2 kernel (long live backports), didn't look into it for
some time.
Steffen
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