Re: [ALUG] Damn Small Alternative
On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:37:37 +0100, "Simon Royal" <s.royal@totalise.co.uk> said:
Are there any other distros that are easy to configure, run on a P166 with 80MB RAM at a pleasant speed, can be booted by floppy as my 380ED wont boot from CD and have good wireless capabilities. A light window manager like fluxbox or icewm would be preffered over gnome or KDE.
I can't remember whether anyone mentioned this when you were working on this eariler, but have you tried Debian? You can boot the installation from floppies: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#floppy-boot and then pick only the packages you want to get your minimal system running. It includes Xfce and various other light-weight window managers and you get a choice of kernels. You can install over the network (from floppies) or from CDs (with floppies). Cheers, Richard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:45, Richard Lewis wrote:
I can't remember whether anyone mentioned this when you were working on this eariler, but have you tried Debian?
I think you'll find that DSL is Debian, with the possibility of a few modified init scripts. With this in mind, you have some 14,000 packages available in the main Debian repository and countless more from backports.org and other sources. Regards, Paul.
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