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Posted: May 28 2005,05:14 QUOTE
Also,

To minimize RAM usage, you should boot up with the "noicons" cheatcode.

I would also use the framebuffer Xserver and maybe use cheatcodes to disable unneeded hardware drivers:

nousb noagp nofirewire atapicd noscsi

These will save RAM usage.

Finally, I would give the opera.uci extension a tryout.  It runs faster on old computers than Firefox.  Dillo is also great, but Opera is a more full featured web browser.
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Posted: May 28 2005,05:24 QUOTE
Quote (cbagger01 @ May 28 2005,01:10)
My advice is to create a minimum 64MB swap space (128MB preferred).  If you wish to do a DSL hard disk install, you will need somelike like a 200MB Linux (EXT2 for example) partition for your installation.

Some good ideas there..

Thanks for help, ill work on some different configurations over the weekend and see what runs the smoothest, but yea i think this is gonna work out pretty good.

Hopefully ill be posting back here using it with a Dsl install soon. :)
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Posted: June 01 2005,19:12 QUOTE
Welcome everybody, I've got a little problem, I do owe laptop, 386 sx, 4 MB RAM, HD-120 MB . I would like to run any of the linux distributions. Could you recommend anything ? :) Is there even a possibility to run Linux on such system??
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Posted: June 02 2005,02:14 QUOTE
OK, you win.

DSL will not work on such an old system (386sx 4MB RAM).

However, I would give these ones a try:

BasicLinux  (try both the current version and the lowmem 1.8 version):

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/

or maybe even DeliLinux:

http://www.delilinux.de/
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