[Gllug] Newbie needs help!

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Wed Oct 20 10:50:17 UTC 2004


On Wed 20 Oct, Andy McCall wrote:

> Hi Guys

> 
> Digging around in my loft I found an old Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E (486)
> mono laptop, 12Mb ram and have managed to upgrade the hard drive to
> 800Mb. It has no built in CD Rom but does have a floppy drive and I have
> a parallel port CDR.
> 
>  
> 
> My question is this, is there a distro available that will work with
> what I've got giving me access to WP and Spreadsheets?
> 

   Unfortunately most recent distributions require more RAM just for the
installer to run successfully, so it would be difficult to find something
that will install easily, while a laptop can be more difficult to set up
anyway. Are you trying to use the laptop because it is there, or because you
need something portable? You may find that replacement parts for a laptop
such as a battery or RAM are expensive. Standard boxes are fairly easy to
adapt, and anything not capable of running the latest version of M$ may be
just thrown in the skip.

-- 
Chris Bell

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