[Wylug-help] Installing on ancient systems?

[Gary Stainburn]

On Saturday 01 May 2004 1:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Maybe I'm just asking too much, but I wondered whether it would be
> possible to put a user-friendly distro onto a system with a celeron 300
> and 128MB ram.  I thought the best thing to do was to boot knoppix, but
> it simply moved on to the hdd, bypassing the cdrom.  SUSE LiveEval did
> the same.  MEPIS started up OK, but then said
>
> Looking for MEPIS Linux....
> Can't startup filesystem
> Halting
>
> Can anyone tell me what is happening?  It does seem extremely strange.
>
> Anne

Hi Anne,

That size box should easily take a Linux distro.  If the problem's not being
able to boot from CD, then choose one that has floppy images on the CD, and
boot from floppy first.  At one time, that was the only way you could start.

The last dist I did this with was a RH7.3, so I know at least that far back
you could do it.

Gary
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