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I'm trying to get a distro up on my IBM 560E w/80mb ram and a 2GB hard drive. I've been looking around for distros to install (I've done a few ...
  1. 03-23-2007 #1
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    Small Distro w/Kernel Newer Than 2.4.4?

    I'm trying to get a distro up on my IBM 560E w/80mb ram and a 2GB hard drive. I've been looking around for distros to install (I've done a few basic installs on newer machines from live CDs). I have to boot from floppies so my plan was to boot from floppy, then install the rest of the system from CD, I tried this with slackware 11, the only problem is my CD drive needs a kernel newer than 2.4.4 to be recognized. So now I'm completely lost. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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    DSL is a great small distro, have you tried it? I think it uses a 2.6 kernel by default http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
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    Zenwalk (based on Slackware) is another lightweight distro with a newer kernel:

    http://www.zenwalk.org/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Juan Pablo
    DSL is a great small distro, have you tried it? I think it uses a 2.6 kernel by default http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
    Close...it still uses a 2.4 series kernel (2.4.26 to be exact) .

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