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BabyD49683
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 Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: Help with Linux |
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I have an old HP vectra 500 w/ a pentium 166Mhz cpu. The oldest ver. of windows I have is '98 and it will not finish installing on it. I know it's not really worth keeping but, I don't want to throw it way. I'm intrested in insalling Linux on it but there are a million difer ver. of it. Any suggestions.on which one and how to install it after its been downloaded and burned to a cd as an "iso" file.
ps. Brand new to Linux |
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gshv
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if you are new to Linux maybe you can try it before you install it. Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) allows you to run Linux from CD without installing it. And if you really want to install it I'd recommend Red Hat or SUSE.
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slava
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| gshv wrote: | Well, if you are new to Linux maybe you can try it before you install it. Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) allows you to run Linux from CD without installing it. And if you really want to install it I'd recommend Red Hat or SUSE.
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Nay, that wouldn't work.
Knoppix is way too large for a P166. I boots into KDE desktop and you will get it REALLY slow. 
As to RedHat, I wouldn't recommend it at all, it had been the most popular distro some time ago, but really, it is crap. 
SuSE is great, but again you will need to use some other window manager, like Fluxbox of Xfce, they are small and fast.
If you want to get a really quick system, you can try to install Slackware. But you'll need to read tons of documentation to make it work as you want it to.
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gshv
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| slava wrote: | | Knoppix is way too large for a P166. I boots into KDE desktop and you will get it REALLY slow. |
You're right, I forgot that BabyD49683 wants to install it on Pentium 166 box.
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BabyD49683
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, Thanks for the input. I might try that. |
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