[NBLUG/talk] OS Alternatives.

[Walter Hansen]

   Was just thinking about it and I think I have RH 7.3 on a p166 with 32
or 48. I'll look when I get home. I'm not real sure how much memory I
had on the machine, but I know I keep my 32meg simms for real stuff.
It's running xwindows a little slow, but usable. An older version of RH
might do the trick, but I'm not sure where the speed/memory mix is good
for p100/32m.


>     Looks like you've got some good answers, but this might be helpfull
> as
> well. I installed win95 on a couple of p100s a year ago that didn't have
> cd roms. I got a little 2.5 IDE adatpter at HSC for a couple
> bucks and did the install using my desktop machine with the little drive
> hooked up. It went fine. I installed everything I needed from cdrom and
> then put the drive back in the laptops without a hitch. This might work
> fine for you for a cdrom linux install. As to the ram
> question, I'd go with what people recomend, xwindows being the big
> factor. I'm not sure what version/flavor would be quickest on little
> ram.
>
>> I have a Dell Latitude XPi (Pentium 100) with 32 Megs of ram and a
>> 2gig hard drive.  I tried to do a network install (no cdrom) of RH 9.0
>> and well it tries to intall but goes real real slow, when I switch the
>> consol over to see what its doing its getting DMA time out errors when
>> trying to access the drive..  So anyways...
>>
>> I made a windows 95 boot disk, booted up and formatted the drive just
>> fine under windows.. So I am wondering if Linux doesn't like this
>> laptop
>>
>>   =) Anyone have any experience with this?
>>
>> The main point of posting this is, I want to put a OS on this laptop
>> that I can install with out a CDROM.  Anyone know of any small OS's
>> that
>>  support PCMCI and networking (TCP/IP)?  I would love to just put
>> linux
>> on it but my 2 attempts failed =/
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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