Can you bring some likely candidates from among the ones you mention to try on Tuesday? Or, is it more convenient to download them and burn them to floppy or CD at the warehouse?
For testing purposes, we probably don't need X. However, a photo of an X desktop running on one of the laptops might be impressive on the Ebay auction.
Tom Mike Cook wrote:
We could try MenuetOS it has a gui and runs from a floppy. We might also try 1-disk X, a floppy based Linux x windows system. Both should run on 16-32M. DS-Linux also will run on 16M though we might need a boot floppy. Puppy needs at least 32M although you might need a swap partition. I'm sure Slack or Debian would also work but it would be a struggle to get X running with that small amount of memory. Do we have a model number on these laptops? If so we might find additional info on Google. I'm sure we can find something to test them and make them look pretty. Mike -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Mike or Goose:Kevin wants to test the Compaq laptops in the server/storage room next Tuesday, before putting them on Ebay. As I recall, the laptops don't havemuch memory, maybe 16-32MB. I'd be surprised if any have 64MB.What will install on these extremely low resource laptops to test them? I believe we could try older Slackware or Debian releases, possibly an olderVector Linux, without X-Windows.Second, I'm not sure whether we can get these laptops to boot off CD.From the official Slackware site (current release is 12.0):Slackware Linux doesn't require an extremely powerful system to run (though having one is quite nice :). It will run on systems as far back as the 486. Below is a list of minimum system requirements needed to install and run Slackware. * 486 processor * 16MB RAM (32MB suggested) * 100-500 megabytes of hard disk space for a minimal install* 3.5" floppy driveAdditional hardware may be needed if you want to run the X Window System at a usable speed or if you want network capabilities.Tom** This list is PUBLICLY archived. **PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain.To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/ You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana
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