Best Distro For Partly Disabled Laptop
Hi guys,
I got a hold of an old latop, an ASUS A1000, that got it's RAM "burned" from 256MB down to 64MB. I still got its 40GB hard drive running fine, but the CD drive's quirky (reads only commercially pressed discs from what I can tell), and the floppy's bust. And no USB booting either. My question is, what would be the best distro to use for this junker? I can't boot from any device except for the hard disk itself, and the only CD i have that can be read is a Win98SE installer, which can get me to a DOS prompt. I can transfer the hard disk to another linux system and copy contents from there to the laptop HD, but what do I need to put in? I've tried putting in a Puppy Linux universal install there but it seems it won't load due to not having enough RAM. |
Damn Small Linux?
Burn the CD using the audiomaster setting. Personally, I'd hunt for another old laptop to cannibalise. |
It is small enough, think I'll give it a try! Hopefully I can finally burn a CD that can be read properly. Or maybe I can copy the ISO's contents to the laptop's hard disk, set the boot flag, and run it that way, a la live CD?
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hey ZakOZakO
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its kinda limited but needs only 10MB RAM with X and it's really small (3mb) to boot it off hdd grab the floppy img and memdisk(boots floppy imgs) http://www.kolibrios.org/ Memdisk http://multidistro.com/downloads/memdisk I included it in ThorsHammerII http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...II-55542.shtml heres an example isolinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg Code:
label kolcdusb Code:
title Kolibri OS 0.7.7.0 |
Thanks linus72, i'll check kolibri out, looks promising
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Took awhile but I finally got Damn Small Linux running. Kolibri was, in my opinion, a little limited (some parts in russian). Used PloP to be able to boot off from USB, and LinuxLive USB Creator for a DSL USB stick. Unetbootin kept putting the wrong files, had to try and dissect the syslinux.cfg only to find out it's looking at the wrong places for booting (/boot/isolinux/syslinux when there was no /boot directory).
Anyways thanks for all the help! |
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