[Wolves] Linux on an old PC

[Baza]

On 2/5/05 19:15, "Kevanf1" <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anybody succesfully run SuSe 9.2 on an old PC?  It's not for me
> but somebody asked me  if it were possible?  They have tried using a
> PC running 196mb of RAM together with a 166 Pentium MMX chip.  The PC
> hangs so far into the install and goes no further.  I'm pretty sure
> 9.2 ought to run on a 166 but maybe not.  Or could it be something
> else preventing it?  I've got an old PC with a 166 MMX myself and had
> thought of running SuSE on this.  Perhaps it's not a good idea?  This
> chap has run other distros succesfully on this particular PC by the
> way so it's not the Machinery that's actually broken....perhaps not
> quite up to the job.

I use an old P1 pc with 96 meg ram and a 5gig hard drive as my web server.
It's running Ubuntu 5.04 with the Icewindow manager if I want a gui. With
the OS, Apache, mysql and php it uses just under a gig of drive space.

Baza