 | Junior Member with 4 posts. | | Join Date: May 2005 Experience: Windows Journeyman, Linux Fetus | | Linux on Old Laptop I recently purchased an old Dell Inspiron 3000 Laptop for $25 and i would like to put linux on it. I am New to linux and am trying to find a linux distro that would run well on it. all i want to do with this laptop is word process and listen to music. - System: Dell Inspiron 3000
- Microprocessor: Intel Pentium 200 MHz w/ internal math coprocessor
- PC Card: 2 PCI controller Texas Instruments PCI 1131 CardBus controller
- Memory: 32 MB SDRAM (Max. 144 MB)
- Audio: Crystal 4237B sound card (Sound Blaster Pro-compatible voice and music functions)
- Video: NeoMagic 2160 64-bit (128-bit hardware-accelerated) PCI card
- Mouse: Synaptics Touch Pad
- Main Battery: lithium ion (max. 3.3 hours)
- Disk drive: 3.5" floppy (removable)
- Other: Infrared IrDA 1.1 port, USB port (1)
| | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | Two obversations,
32MB ram isn't much, and can you boot with the external CD drive?
If so you can run some 'Live' Linux CDs and see how they will work. | | Junior Member with 4 posts. | | Join Date: May 2005 Experience: Windows Journeyman, Linux Fetus | | 1. for $15 i can add 64 mb of ram (is it worth it?)
2. i will find out about the cd drive in 2 days (i loaned it to a friend)
Any suggestions about beginner friendly distros? | | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | $15 for 64MB of ram sounds good to me! (Just make sure it works)
And you need to make sure you can boot with your CD drive - If you can't it means you are going to have to try using boot floppies and it's going to get frustrating really quick.
You might also do a search for 'laptop linux' and see which distros you find there.
__________________ Registered Linux user #385997 | | Distinguished Member with 2,051 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Experience: Windows: Decent. Unix/Linux: Advanced +1 | | Yeah... you can run linux. Easily. I was, for a long time, running a D266XT, which isn't much faster. Only thing you need to watch for is big GUI envrionments. Stay away from gnome, gnome apps/kde,kde-apps like the plague. They take up massive amounts of resources on a small box like that. | | Junior Member with 4 posts. | | Join Date: May 2005 Experience: Windows Journeyman, Linux Fetus | | i prefer a gui, i don't like using a text only interface.
Is there any low resource gui that i can use? | | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | | | | Junior Member with 4 posts. | | Join Date: May 2005 Experience: Windows Journeyman, Linux Fetus | | they use redhat 5.1 and also suggest slackware. i did find a Website giving instructions on slackware 10 installation on this laptop, but its way over my head. | | Senior Member with 108 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: detroit | | | |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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