Christmas
July 11th, 2006, 12:13 PM
I have a friend who was given two old systems and asked me to help him make them work, as he is not much into computers. He will only need them for listening to music as he has a great collection of mp3s. This is the only thing he will use the computer with.
So one system was incomplete (no sound card and CD-ROM) and I made one single system from both of them. The configuration of the PC is as follows (don't know the exact manufacturers as the system is very old and has no manuals or other stuff):
Processor: Pentium 166 MHz
Memory: 72 MB RAM
2 Hard-Disks, each 2 GB
14" Monitor
...and the rest I guess it doesn't really matter.
I tried Kubuntu 6.06 on this system, it loads the processes than the monitor turns to black and the system stops, so it is practically impossible even to try the live version, not to install it.
I read on this forums that systems like Damn Small Linux or ArchLinux could be something to fit this kind of old PCs. Can you recommend me something? It must be graphical install, don't care about the DE. Also if there is a Debian-based distro which could work on this PC it would be perfect as I know how to install programs in it.
The currently installed system is Windows 98 and I have Windows Me which I guess it would work, but I want to know if there is any possibility of installing a Linux distro. Please, don't point me to the base installation as the person who will use the computer will need GUI. Any recommendations would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks!
So one system was incomplete (no sound card and CD-ROM) and I made one single system from both of them. The configuration of the PC is as follows (don't know the exact manufacturers as the system is very old and has no manuals or other stuff):
Processor: Pentium 166 MHz
Memory: 72 MB RAM
2 Hard-Disks, each 2 GB
14" Monitor
...and the rest I guess it doesn't really matter.
I tried Kubuntu 6.06 on this system, it loads the processes than the monitor turns to black and the system stops, so it is practically impossible even to try the live version, not to install it.
I read on this forums that systems like Damn Small Linux or ArchLinux could be something to fit this kind of old PCs. Can you recommend me something? It must be graphical install, don't care about the DE. Also if there is a Debian-based distro which could work on this PC it would be perfect as I know how to install programs in it.
The currently installed system is Windows 98 and I have Windows Me which I guess it would work, but I want to know if there is any possibility of installing a Linux distro. Please, don't point me to the base installation as the person who will use the computer will need GUI. Any recommendations would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks!