donated computers lab setup

[Kam Leo]

On 12/29/06, Norm <maillist at sios.ca> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 12/29/06, john s. <john at johnsdesign.net> wrote:
> >> jim tate wrote:
> >> > Alan wrote:
> >> >>> Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. Great
> >> >>> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I doubt
> >> FC5 or
> >> >>> FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> A small FC6 install will drop fine onto a 128MB box although for a
> >> small
> >> >> box its quicker to set up an image on a larger box, make sure it
> >> has the
> >> >> right i586 etc kernel/glibc installed and then rsync it using an
> >> >> external
> >> >> disk caddy
> >> >>
> >> >> A base system with X, xfce, sylpheed, abiword should be quite
> >> >> acceptable,
> >> >> just avoid all the heavy gnome/kde stuff.
> >> >>
> >> >> Alan
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > Yeah, will I can't FC6 to install on a HP omnibook laptop because of ,
> >> > only 128meg of memory.
> >> >
> >>   Noticed the same thing with mine. Installed okay with 384mb.
> >>
> >
> > Since version 10.1 OpenSuSE requires 384 MB of memory to run in live
> > mode. It's really a crying shame: There are so many old boxes with 256
> > MB or less memory and I cannot demo either of the top Linux distros on
> > them.
> >
> > How do you convert people if they cannot try out the product? What
> > other live distros are in the same boat?
> >
>
> I ran Core 5 successfully on 128 of RAM; slower than I would have liked,
> but then the box was free   So I could not complain at the speed.  I
> found another 128 RAM and run core 6 on the same box, once again faster
> would be nicer but it works well enough in most cases, the only stumble
> is when I use Yum and the box seems to have a tendency to hang  the Yum
> process, don't know if this is hardware or a Yum issue but not really
> more than a minor inconvenience.
> I have also successfully installed SUSE 10, Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Sarge
> on the same box all work well enough that I would not hesitate to
> install on a box that is to be donated.
> Currently I am using the box as a dual boot Ubuntu/core 6  (also bumped
> the hard drive to 30 gig and installed a newer cd rw drive))as my prime
> box rather than a newer faster and better box contaminated with XP (wish
> I could upgrade the box to  any Linux version but business interest
> require I stay with an inferior system on one box)
>

I was referring to running the "Live" DVD; i.e. trial/test/demo,
nothing installed on HD. Let me know if you can find a recent disto
that will run on your 128 and 256 MB boxen.