<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~egkenny/files/Compaq_Presario_1675_Notebook.html">http://home.comcast.net/~egkenny/files/Compaq_Presario_1675_Notebook.html</a><br><br>Has a link on redhat 9 set up. ugh!<br><br>Because of the age of the cpu, nothing from fedora that's still supported will work.<br>
<br>But look at very small distros like Tiny Core and Puppy. Tiny Core will run on a i486 DX but that's the bottom end. The base system came with 64 MB so it should work. <br><br><a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html">http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Damon L. Chesser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Sister-in-law has a compaq Presario 1675. Anybody know of a *nix that<br>
will install a gui onto this old box? Lubuntu and F15 both will not<br>
(Kernel does not support the hardware from boot up).<br>
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Damon<br>
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