I just wanted to know if a PowerBook with 100Mhz, 32MB Ram would be able to run DSL with relative ease? It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, which means I'll have to install DSL to it's 775MB HD, which shouldn't be a problem. My main concern is the processing speed and if PowerBook had the math co-processor (which I know is need to run this distro).'Scuse me, but do you mean the Powerbook that Apple makes? If it is one, then sorry. Apples have a PowerPC proccessor, and Damn Small Linux will only work on Intel/x86 proccessors.I think he's talking about an old IBM Powerbook.
If so, it should run, slowly, but it should run.
I hope you aren't paying much for that, though
-J.P.
Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ Nov. 28 2004,23:09)
I think he's talking about an old IBM Powerbook.
It was actually the Apple Powerbook. I didn't know DSL didn't run on Apples. For some reason I had it in my head that it would work. Time for google... Either that or not buying it. Does it have a powerpc processor? (If it's 680x0, just forget it.) If it has, is it based on pci or nubus? If it is pci, there are several powerpc distros, e.g. yellow dog or mandrake - but I doubt that they will run well on this laptop - both memory and disk probably will be a problem - you could try one of the older versions of Yellow Dog, 2.0 or 2.3 (I have installed ydl1.2 on a pmac 6100 using icewm and it works ok).
