P1 128RAM

[edward chin]

Thanks to all for your suggestions. Len, again, seems to have gotten
it just right.
So far, the only recent distro to work is Debian, but configuring and
learning to navigate a new desktop is a chore. The best solution seems
to be Knoppix 3.2,  3.4,  or 3.7  which I have. I would try mandriva
6.5 if I could find it.
Since this acer entra mmx P1 233 is too slow for video to play
properly - email, slow surfing, and word processing seem to be its
limit. I'm not sure who to give this to.  The hdd is 2gig so there is
a little gain over the win98 on it previously.
The video improved with a newer (1998) pci video card. I upped the ram to 256.



On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Lennart
Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:20:05PM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
>> * If a 'modern' distro is going to be used on an old Pentium I system,
>> then he'll need to use an 'alternate' install CD as opposed to the
>> livecd installs.
>
> Debian's install disc works on a 486 and up.  Seems quite modern,
> especially given everyone else seems to be based on it these days.
>
>> * I would suggest rolling your own kernel. Even though modern distros
>> try to cover all bases by just compiling a million things as modules,
>> some of those modules are loaded by default, whether you want them or
>> not. (Case in point: When I insert the kernel AES modules in Ubuntu to
>> mount my secure swap space, I get a couple of error messages about
>> modules that were not able to load. Tracking these down I found out that
>> they are modules for embedded crypto chips on Via Nano/etc
>> miniITX/nanoITX boards. The reason that I'm getting errors is that they
>> are installed be default and try to load when the kernel AES modules are
>> loaded, and fail when they can't communicate with the hardware they are
>> for... If these modules were able to load without the hardware being
>> present I would have irrelavent modules taking up memory space)
>
> I would stick with the distribution kernel.
>
>> * Debian (as already suggested) or Slackware would probably be good
>> choices though Debian is probably the easier choice.
>> You'd definitely have to use 'alternate' install CDs for most distros
>> out there nowadays. I would probably suggest even rolling your own
>> kernel so that you only are using what you need. Most common 'modern'
>> distros have tons of crap compiled in or set to load as default modules
>> that you probably don't need to make that bad boy run.
>
> Plain old debian installer simply works.  I still run it on my 486/66.
> No alternate thingy to worry about.
>
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