What Distro For A Laptop With Pentium 1


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So i have this laptop, with pentium 1, 100Mhz, 8MB Ram, 500MB Hard disk.

it can only take floppy disks, and doesn't have network.

i would like to salvage it for presentations, what can i do with it?

Please Posts tips,advices, and ideas.

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hmm...Free-BSD?

Edit: Found this Tiny Linux

Requirements:

processor : i386 or better

hard disk : 50 Mo is enough for installation itself, but you will do better with at least 80 Mo

ram: 8 MB minimum, 12 MB or 16 MB is better

floppy drive :3"1/4

keyboard, mouse

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8MB RAM for presentations..like PowerPoints? Or presentations as in showing your friends your uber-awesome computer. The 8MB of RAM is a huge limitation. How about FreeDOS?

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8MB RAM for presentations..like PowerPoints? Or presentations as in showing your friends your uber-awesome computer. The 8MB of RAM is a huge limitation. How about FreeDOS?

8 MB of RAM will be fine, since he has no network, USB or optical drive to load in large presentation.

That leaves his 1.44MB floppy drive. :p

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Debian can run on that with the basic floppy install and xfbdev. It can even be usable without swap partition if you only have 1 or 2 aTerm/urxvt open at the same time. On my proff of concept bad laptop, I installed debian, X(fbdev), dwm, feh+ background, conky and urxvt and it used 5.5mb ram with mouse, graphic and everything. Other things like GPM and dbus were also running.

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Debian can run on that with the basic floppy install and xfbdev. It can even be usable without swap partition if you only have 1 or 2 aTerm/urxvt open at the same time. On my proff of concept bad laptop, I installed debian, X(fbdev), dwm, feh+ background, conky and urxvt and it used 5.5mb ram with mouse, graphic and everything. Other things like GPM and dbus were also running.

+1 (Y)

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