Comments on: Three’s the charm

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:25:16 +0000

Yes, I’m going to look into DeLi linux, as well as some of the floppy-based distros. I was even picking over Kolibri a few minutes ago.

However, I’ve invested a day compiling a kernel so I want to spend a little more time with Crux. I think tomorrow I’ll have enough time to experiment a little more, and hopefully have more news to report.

By: Anjinsan

Anjinsan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:34:06 +0000

I think your posts are evidence linux is becoming mainstream. Ubuntu works great on my thinkpad r51.. except for those annoying freezes.. but I’m sure someone’s compiled a thinkpad r51 specific kernal with drivers and it works great. In a perfect world that would be available for download to other thinkpad r51… lovers. But my point is that though compliling might be as lonely now as it ever was, flavored operating systems appear to be the salvation of computer manufacturers. Fukk vanilla.. Let’s go organic.

By: zmjjmz

zmjjmz — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:16:35 +0000

Going to agree with Matero here, DeLi is probably your best bet.

By: matero

matero — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:20:32 +0000

Did you try delilinux ( http://www.delilinux.org/ ) ?

I’ve a _beautiful_ desktop machine with a p133, 16mb of RAM, icewm / blackbox /dwm (depending on the mood of the day)

The las release is based on pacman (i believe its the arch package manager, which you should known better than me ).

xlinks2 + centericq + irsii + orpheus + workbone + nedit + urxvtc/d + elinks + rtorrent + dillo + (x)zgv + feh + … and now too, you should known better than me what kind of apps can be run in this little monster

i use it for the fun of seeing my friends face when i tell them its a P133

BUT i’m using the 6.1 release, which is based on slack 7.2. For me its better than DSL / Puppy.

greetings
matero

By: luc

luc — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:52:12 +0000

Hi,

You could also try the loram flavor of slitaz cooking, it requires only 16MB ram so in theory it should work.
you can find it here:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/iso/cooking/flavors/
Good luck,

Lucian

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Josh: The Ubuntu (and Debian too, I’m sure) Grub installation step pauses when it senses system software on the other drive, which means you get the chance to point it at another hard drive. It’s kind of like building a dual boot, except when the system acknowledges the presence of another installation, you tell it to send Grub to the secondary drive. Ta-da!

You do end up with an extra set of boot options at startup (because it lists the extra system it found on the host machine), but that should disappear when the first kernel update comes in, or when you manually update Grub, since those kernels are no longer visible on the target machine.

Cheers!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:47:04 +0000

You made an interesting statement that caught my attention:

…and redirecting the installation sequences to the secondary drive.

So just to be clear: You put the laptop’s primary drive in another computer as the secondary drive, and just ran the installer to point to the secondary drive? Seems easy enough, but what do you do when it comes time to install GRUB? Debian (the only distro I’m familiar with) wants to drop GRUB on the MBR, which would be problematic.

FYI, I dearly *love* your blog, especially your emphasis on minimalism. I also would like to see more write ups on light apps that aren’t Ubuntu-specific. (For example, my favorite post: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/more-fun-x-based-stuff/ all of the links go not to the homepages, but to Ubuntu package searches!)

Best,

Josh

By: Peterix

Peterix — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:40:13 +0000

Hi, I have a similar machine – only slightly older. It’s a Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-4ND (486, 75Mhz, 20MB ram, 800MB harddrive) and I just can’t bring byself to wipe W95 from it.

It’s great for playing all those old DOS games