On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:56:34PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I have an AST Bravo NB-RC laptop > CPU = 486/33 Color > RAM = 20 mb > HDD = 190 mb > VID = Chips & Technologies 65530 > FDD = 1.44 > Network = Xircom 10 mbt > Zip Drive = Parallel Port 100 mb. > > Any chance that I could install Linux on this and get X going with 190 mb of > disk? Just enough to get network, zipdrive, and maybe X running. > I don't see why not, if you can fit your X install into 100 Mb or so. I have basic networking on this laptop, and adding parport devices would only take a kernel recompile. I've run X on a 486/25 so I know it can be done. If you went with slackware or linuxfromscratch I'm sure you could get more bang for your buck than I did with Debian. Apt on a 386 has to be the saddest thing ever. It takes about 15 minutes to build the dependency tree. I know there's a lot of cruft in my install (no, I *don't* need exim, thanks), so I'm not pushing the envelope any. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list