Old equipment

[laverda]

My cousin just gave me an old PacBell Legend 100CD. It has:
- Intel Pentium 60 Mhz processor
- 420 MB Hard Drive
- 8 MB of RAM, only upgradable to 72 MB
- 1 MB of video memory
- 14.4 Fax/Modem
- 2x CD-ROM

I wanted to run Linux on it since it obvisouly won't run win98. I just wanted to know if it would be possible to run Linux on it and what you guys thought would be the best distro/version of distro to run on the machine. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[FoBoT]

try to add some ram to it
you can get 16mb 72pin simms purty cheap, pop 2 of them in their and it will run much better

be carefull trying to run GUI/x windows on it, it will be veeeery slow
if you just run console/command line applications, it will do quite nicely

any distro can be installed with/without X, you just have to choose expert or custom

have you installed linux before?

[ 26 August 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

[Dave2001]

I have similar experience with an P100 i had to play with on my work - X did run pretty good with a lightweight windowmanager - i used blackbox . But like FoBoT said - get more ram .
And as Distro for the beginning - mm i dunno Mandrake and SuSe -but they come with so much stuff you dont need on this pc - i would suggest Debian . Even though it is prolly a bit hard to install in the begin . Do you have a fast internet access ?


David