How will this system fare?

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: How will this system fare?
started by: MatthewForshaw

Posted by MatthewForshaw on April 11 2004,00:25

Hi,

I've got a really old PC that'll be free'd up soon when i get a new system so i'd quite like to use DSL on it but i'm not sure if it'll run. My main concern is that the system only has 8MB of ram (it had more but i think a stick went pop or came loose but i'll only know whats up when i get my new system). Would that be okay to run it? I'm thinkin that on some things it would struggle but i'm really just looking to have it as a fileserver or something like that.

Any help would be great! :cool:

Thanks,
Matt

Posted by Rapidweather on April 11 2004,15:45

You could try and boot a DSL cd on it, but you might want to use the knoppix cheatcode:
boot: knoppix 2
That will get it up in text only, not a GUI, with X.