[ale] Lightweight Linux with X

[Stephan Uphoff]

Some suggestions:

	1) Minimal install on a system with more resources (Your Athlon should do 
fine :-).
           Copy the installation to the old machines by switching disks or 
copying
           the files to the 486 over the network (by booting them with the 1-2 
floppy
           network distros)
           Add X and other packages ...

	2) RedHat 6.1 (6.0?) installed fine on a 7.5 MByte Laptop (as far as I recall)
          

        3) Take a look at network booting and clusters.
           Some cluster projects make it extremely easy to add/replace boxes.
           ( And the failure rate of the junkers might make it worth to invest 
some
             extra time up front )
           
Good luck

	Stephan

> I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to work properly on
> our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a somewhat different
> problem at hand.
> 
> I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have 486es on hand, with
> 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> 
> I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry, your computer
> doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la Microsoft even at
> 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I don't have much
> Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of trying to do it if at
> all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an Internet distro
> mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did get a running
> machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself a bit flummoxed
> w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or nothing else.
> 
> I expect to find and install various free edu software on this thing for the
> kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> 
> Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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