Linux on old laptop - still trying...

[Stephen Ryan]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:06 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:

> At this point, I just hear a lot of disk spinning for MANY  MANY
> minutes... then the screen clears, and still more disk spinning... but
> nothing appears to be happening...  eventually, it all just stops.  

I just installed Ubuntu (on a much larger system) and I saw something
that suggested a minimum of 192Mb to install.  I doubt you really want
Ubuntu on a system with that little RAM; it might work if you install
the "server" variant, which installs a relatively minimal system, but I
suspect that DSL or one of the other small Linux systems would be a
whole lot better.

HTH,

> 
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Stephen Ryan <stephen.p.ryan at dartmouth.edu>
Center for Educational Outcomes