donated computers lab setup

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 11:55 -0800, 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?

The older versions of RH and Caldera would run just fine on 486's, once
you re-rolled the kernel to include the bare bones of what you needed.
Video, sound, printer and a VGA driver and you were set. God only knows
what has happened since then. Ric

-- 
================================================
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar
http://www.wayward4now.net
================================================