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Will Puppy work on my '95 model laptop w/32 MB RAM?
Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2006, 16:27
by Guest
i have an old laptop designed for windows 95. i was hoping if there is or puppy linux coudl be insatlled on it.
specs:
about 1 gig hd (more or less)
about 32MB RAM (more or less)
and the procesesor is kinda slow too
thanks...
Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2006, 17:08
by mayakovski
Just so long as Puppy can find a suitable partition on the Hard Drive to store it's data on it will work fine.
Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2006, 22:16
by rarsa
Actually you will need to create a swap partition or swap file for it to work OK.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2006, 02:38
by kethd
You need to give more info about the computer, details, processor speed...
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2006, 18:37
by Yaverot
_I_ think it's safe to say Puppy could be installed on that system.
However; depending on what you want to do, it may not feel workable.
Do you want/need to get online with it? If so, with dial-up, wi-fi, or ethernet?
Do you want sound? Linux, may not have drivers for the laptop's sound system.
I'm assumeing that Puppy will have no problem creating a swap file and the pupxxx file in the root directory of the windows C: partition.
Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2006, 23:26
by Guest
i will give it a try. iv tried other distro on it but none would work..probably the memory cant handle. i think th eprocessor is 120 something mhz..not sure..and memry is less than 32MB
anways, i will download puppy an dtry it out..puppy sounds promising..and a must try..
Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2006, 23:28
by mayakovski
If Puppy doesn't work then try Damn Small Linux or Feather Linux.
I have run both of them on a P100 with 32MB RAM laptop.