an observation, and question

[Alex Snow]

As far as I know, slackware is one of the fiew (if not the only) distro 
that'll install easily on old hardware.  I'm not sure how it'll work on 
an original pentium machine as I got rid of all mine a couple years ago, 
but I recently installed slackware 13 on a p2/233 with 512mb ram in 
around 3 hours (this was using the 2 cds, as this machine doesn't have a 
dvd-rom drive).


On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Hi all.
> 
> A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image,
> and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The
> machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram,
> with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive.
> 
> The installation went on for over 24 hours, and I powered off the box
> at that point, before it completed. Part of that time was spent
> idling overnight, waiting at the popularity contest
> question. Downloading standard packages, and updates, is also a
> contributing factor here. All that aside, while
> things would probably have gone faster if I had used a dvd, or had my
> own debian mirror locally, I think the major bottle neck here is the
> age, and abilities of the machine in question.
> 
> I recall someone on here saying that the only distro that person could
> install on his old laptop is slackware. This then begs the question,
> is slackware the only distro that can still be installed on older
> hardware in a reasonable amount of time, (say 3-5 hours from start to
> finish), or are there others? Thanks
> for any feedback.
> 
> Greg
> 
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