Can Puppy run on my old computer with 40 MB RAM?
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ChazZTheSpazZ
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Can Puppy run on my old computer with 40 MB RAM?
I have an old packard bell with a 100mhz cpu and about 40mb of ram and a hd with a little less than 1gb of space. So, before I waste time pulling the hard drive to put the necessary files on it, will puppy even run on it? I would test it with my live-cd but it doesn't boot from a cd.
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this needs updating
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootingFromCD
but we do have a way of booting from floppy that activates the Live CD - try the beginners sticky from Flash (beginners start here I think it is)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootingFromCD
but we do have a way of booting from floppy that activates the Live CD - try the beginners sticky from Flash (beginners start here I think it is)
also pakt has a "wakepup" floppy bootdisk which can boot puppy from cd, usb or other options. see :-
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... t=boot2pup
but with 40 Mbytes ram you could be at puppy's bottom margin of operation. you would have to install to hard disk & make swap partition of about 200Mbytes.
alternatively you vould try dsl at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ , or deli linux at http://www.delilinux.de/ .
the latter website claims deli runs OK on 486 with 16Mbyte of ram, but does warn that you're not going to get "newest kde, gnome or mozilla".
good luck
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... t=boot2pup
but with 40 Mbytes ram you could be at puppy's bottom margin of operation. you would have to install to hard disk & make swap partition of about 200Mbytes.
alternatively you vould try dsl at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ , or deli linux at http://www.delilinux.de/ .
the latter website claims deli runs OK on 486 with 16Mbyte of ram, but does warn that you're not going to get "newest kde, gnome or mozilla".
good luck
Yes, Puppy might run on that computer. I have done a lot of experimenting, which you can read about in my other Forum posts.
But it will not run fast; you will have to be patient!
You need to know that there is a bug in 1.0.7 for machines with less than 64MB. You cannot boot unless you patch the bug or use swap space.
Or, you can use an HDoption-2 install. Which I would recommend -- I think you will get the most performance from an older computer. Loading up the hard drive on another computer seems like a good approach. You'll want to learn how to reset the video/mouse configs from the command line. You might want to supress xwin autolaunch by renaming it to xwin2 until the new setup is working smoothly.
You don't actually NEED any swap space, but even with HDoption-2, setting aside about 200MB for a swap partition is probably a wise approach for your 1GB drive.
But it will not run fast; you will have to be patient!
You need to know that there is a bug in 1.0.7 for machines with less than 64MB. You cannot boot unless you patch the bug or use swap space.
Or, you can use an HDoption-2 install. Which I would recommend -- I think you will get the most performance from an older computer. Loading up the hard drive on another computer seems like a good approach. You'll want to learn how to reset the video/mouse configs from the command line. You might want to supress xwin autolaunch by renaming it to xwin2 until the new setup is working smoothly.
You don't actually NEED any swap space, but even with HDoption-2, setting aside about 200MB for a swap partition is probably a wise approach for your 1GB drive.
Glad that I can agree with ket on some things!
It would be appreciated if definitive advice could be given on editing files from the command line for swapped video cards, esp., but also other components. Which files, where they are, what commands, which editor, how to activate and how to save. This is one major downside to installing on modern HW and switching the HD to old kit. Advice should be highly detailed for many of us, with virtually no prior assumptions about operator skill, more the lack thereof.
It would be appreciated if definitive advice could be given on editing files from the command line for swapped video cards, esp., but also other components. Which files, where they are, what commands, which editor, how to activate and how to save. This is one major downside to installing on modern HW and switching the HD to old kit. Advice should be highly detailed for many of us, with virtually no prior assumptions about operator skill, more the lack thereof.
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Naaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!syzygy wrote: alternatively you vould try dsl at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ , or deli linux at http://www.delilinux.de/ .
Do not go to there deli - I have been there and it is one sausage away from Hades. Which can be quite nice if you need some toast cooking. Deli is an Alpha release Slackware - not for newbies. I have been there and [shudder] I am glad to be back.
DSL is far more friendly and developed.
Deli
There site says they have done a complet rewrite and its not based on slack anymore....
Looks pretty basic compared with puppy tho....
Looks pretty basic compared with puppy tho....
Puppy Linux's [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=296352#296352]Mission[/url]
Sorry, my server is down atm!
Sorry, my server is down atm!
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Hello ChazZTheSpazZ,
I have an old Pentium 1 166Mhz 32mb 1Gb HD computer which will help from the forum got Puppy 2.02 running on it.
I know you are having Problems booting Puppy from CD but if you get around this problem, make a swap partition of around 64MB's and format your HD in EXT2 as I couldn't get it to install fully on my HD in EXT3.
I agree it's slow opening packages but it is still usable.
I only installed it a couple of weeks ago so search the forum and you'll find the posting.
Here's the Link http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 4dd8a8a17d
I have an old Pentium 1 166Mhz 32mb 1Gb HD computer which will help from the forum got Puppy 2.02 running on it.
I know you are having Problems booting Puppy from CD but if you get around this problem, make a swap partition of around 64MB's and format your HD in EXT2 as I couldn't get it to install fully on my HD in EXT3.
I agree it's slow opening packages but it is still usable.
I only installed it a couple of weeks ago so search the forum and you'll find the posting.
Here's the Link http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 4dd8a8a17d
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primalphunk
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