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Name: vtheo Date: December 27, 2002 at 22:52:58 Pacific OS: ?? CPU/Ram: 486sx 33 8mg ram
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i have an old laptop that i am going to stuff as many os's as i can, it is an 486sx 33, with 8 mgs of ram. Also it need to be able to be intslled from floppy
Name: David Perry Date: December 28, 2002 at 05:02:52 Pacific
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Does this laptop have network support? Many non-commercial unix flavors have network intall support. I know there are lots of linux flavors with a minimal footprint but try looking at redhat 6.2.
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Response Number 2
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: December 28, 2002 at 07:46:04 Pacific
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try peanut i don't know their site but you can check all the distros at linux.org
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Response Number 3
Name: vtheo Date: December 28, 2002 at 11:25:25 Pacific
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no network, and it only has a 500 meg harddrive, so peanut wont work, but thanks for the help
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Response Number 4
Name: Jake Date: December 28, 2002 at 12:50:18 Pacific
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Try an old version of Slackware.
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Response Number 5
Name: n0dez Date: December 28, 2002 at 17:39:30 Pacific
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hi,
I strongly recommend you to upgrade your RAM.
Just try and old Linux distro release such as Red Hat Linux 6.2
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2003
N0dez
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Response Number 6
Name: steve Date: January 1, 2003 at 23:42:04 Pacific
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I recomend debian over any version of linux. I have it running on a old 386 with a 33mhz proccesor. It is in my humble opinion the best distro in existance. Not as user friendly as redhat but well worth it.
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