Distro for aging laptop -- bootable CD?

[Duane Attaway]

This may not be for someone faint at heart, but...

What I did recently was take a linux-BBC disc and start the gentoo
installation from there.  And I have less of a laptop than you!  NFS'ing
into the box from a cpu-endowed box and compiling takes about a day to put
kde/gnome on it.  The build directories were mounted between computers to 
share what little resources I had.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Bradley Miller wrote:

> I've got a P233 Toshiba with 96Mb in it.  I found the new Mandrake "Move" 
> that allows you to boot from CD and access a USB storage device.  It works 
> pretty slick -- has Openoffice 1.1 and configures the network and works 
> flawlessly.  I even found the Minolta QMS 2300DL and printed to it from 
> CUPS.  I tried the CD on my laptop and it kind of groaned and managed to 
> sort of boot up.  The graphics were crap and it was very slow -- the 
> Mandrake "Move" requires at least 128Mb of memory.  Does anyone know of a 
> similar distro that will boot up and occupy less space?  There once was the 
> DemoLinux CD's, but I don't think I ever had one boot up on a laptop 
> right.  I've got a 4 gig drive in the laptop, so I could theoretically 
> install two OS systems . . . but I'm still torn on that prospect.  I do 
> need to do a new install on that box because of a virus on it . . . but I'm 
> not energetic enough to try it.  I still need Windows capability on it.
> 
> 
> Bradley Miller, Owner/Programmer/Designer
> AccessZone Design - www.accesszonedesign.com
> Blue Springs, Missouri
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