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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:43:02AM +0100, Ian P. Christian wrote: > Quoting Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > And so the journey continues and I am about to embark on a very long leg > > - I am currently setting up and building a Linux network using old 133's > > and 266's with 2 gig HD's and 32/64 meg Ram. Does anyone have a copy of > > a smaller distro that I could get a copy of - something like the Rule > > Linux - or does somebody have any ideas on how to load up Linux on these > > low specs? And if I were to try to upgrade I suppose the best thing I > > could do would be to give them extra Ram - any comments. > > I use lower spec machines for some of my test stuff, and I run debian on ther no > problem! It's a little some for compiling and things, but that can be > expected. Debian is perfectly happy to run on such a small HDD. I'm sure > nearly any distro would be happy to run on that kind of machine though wouldn't > it? Some of the distros with a graphical installer will refuse to run on lower spec machines. But since the Debian install is text based it should run fine on such machines. It will even work on less well specced machines. Just don't go mad installing everything and remember that you can always nfs mount things like man pages and other documentation. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.