Linux on old laptop - still trying...

[Tech Writer]

I'm beginning to see the same thing...  For example, I looked at the Xubuntu 
kit, and it requires 128MB for a Hard Drive install.

Peg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Ryan" <stephen.p.ryan at dartmouth.edu>
To: <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...


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