an observation, and question

[Tony Baechler]

As Debian has officially stated, you must have a minimum of 128 MB of 
RAM to do an install.  Debian itself might run on less after 
installation.  Yes, I realize this is a late reply, but the statement 
that you can only install Slackware isn't true, provided you have at 
least 128 MB of memory.  You could also set up a virtual machine to do 
the install and somehow use dd to copy the raw virtual image to the 
Pentium hard drive.  You could also try an older version of Debian and 
upgrade.

On 4/6/2010 12:49 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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.
>