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Posted: Oct. 29 2005,18:10 QUOTE
I have a 486 PC with 8Mb RAM, 512Mb HDD,  512kb VIDEO
(I'm not sure about the video) Is DSL going to work ?
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Posted: Oct. 30 2005,05:53 QUOTE
You need more RAM

16MB is minium realistic RAM requirement
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Posted: Oct. 30 2005,17:24 QUOTE
If you set up some swapspace (I'd use toms root boot to do it), DSL should work, albeit slow.

At least if it's a 486DX. If you have no math coproc, you're out of luck.

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Posted: Oct. 31 2005,14:23 QUOTE
You could also take a look at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/
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