[frgeek-michiana] Testing old Compaq laptops
- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:52 -0500
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 have
much 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 older
Vector 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 drive
Additional hardware may be needed if you want to run the X Window System at
a usable speed or if you want network capabilities.
Tom
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