Need small os

[henryjm206]

Hi I have an old Toshiba satellite and need a small os that will work.
I have tried ubuntu and it failed fluxbuntu was closer to working but it also failed. I have tried dsl but for some reason it failed too.
Please respond.
Henry

[Crafty Kisses]

Try PuppyLinux or Damn Small Linux.

[henryjm206]

I've never heard of puppy linux

[Crafty Kisses]

Here take a look at it > http://www.puppylinux.org/

[henryjm206]

Thanks

[snowpine]

Hi I have an old Toshiba satellite and need a small os that will work.
I have tried ubuntu and it failed fluxbuntu was closer to working but it also failed. I have tried dsl but for some reason it failed too.
Please respond.
Henry

Hi Henry, we can give you better advice if you provide some more details:
1. What are the specs of your computer? (RAM is most important, also processor speed and hard drive space)
2. You say "fluxbuntu failed, DSL failed," etc. Can you provide more details about exactly how they failed? Failed to run as a Live CD, failed to install, failed to meet your needs as a user, etc.

The three smallest distros I know of that are still relatively modern and full-featured are DSL, Puppy, and Slitaz.

[Crafty Kisses]

Hi Henry, we can give you better advice if you provide some more details:
1. What are the specs of your computer? (RAM is most important, also processor speed and hard drive space)
2. You say "fluxbuntu failed, DSL failed," etc. Can you provide more details about exactly how they failed? Failed to run as a Live CD, failed to install, failed to meet your needs as a user, etc.

The three smallest distros I know of that are still relatively modern and full-featured are DSL, Puppy, and Slitaz.

Yeah Slitaz is pretty small as well, those even work with my ThinkPad and my ThinkPad is really old. :)

[snowpine]

Yeah Slitaz is pretty small as well, those even work with my ThinkPad and my ThinkPad is really old. :)

Yeah, Slitaz is really incredible! Definitely not as beginner-friendly as Ubuntu, but it's less than 10% the size!

They recommend 128mb RAM to run the Slitaz live CD, but you can get away with even less if you follow these directions: http://wiki.slitaz.org/doku.php?id=quickstart:loram

[Crafty Kisses]

Yeah, Slitaz is really incredible! Definitely not as beginner-friendly as Ubuntu, but it's less than 10% the size!

They recommend 128mb RAM to run the Slitaz live CD, but you can get away with even less if you follow these directions: http://wiki.slitaz.org/doku.php?id=quickstart:loram

I know DSL is really small because I know for a fact on my ThinkPad I have 128MB of RAM and it only uses like 50 or 60MB, I've done a little configuring of course but it works really good. :)

[henryjm206]

My Toshiba Has a 4GB HDD and 128MB of ram. It's processor is a Pentium 1 466Mhz. Fluxbuntu failed on installation. and Damn small linux
failed live. I need and os that I can install from a CD not to boot from.
thanks

[hessiess]

have you tryed Arch?

[henryjm206]

no I have not I'll check it out