I need a watered down linux distro

CyberFed · 03-18-04, 07:49 AM

I recently aquired an old p1 that has 16megs of EDO memory, a floppy and cdrom drive and a 4 gig drive, i wanna put linux on it and throw the computer in my living room as an mp3 server, what linux distro will run on this very bare system??

Gnufsh · 03-18-04, 09:24 AM

Slackware, Debian, or LFS maybe?

klingens · 03-18-04, 11:54 AM

Anything without X.
I'd suggest on of the mp3 distros on freshmeat.net. The smallest ones are fitting on a floppy but have mp3 playback support

Arkaine23 · 03-18-04, 11:55 AM

Yeah, any very basic distro might be alright like that if you do not install X and give it some good swap space. Just setup samba to share the MP3's out to other computers.

DamnSmallLinux would be easy to install. It's got X and fluxbox and a light web browser, it is a very basic debian otherwise and installs like knoppix.

You would need to boot using cheatcodes to run in text mode the first time, then probably run cfdisk and create a swap partition on your hard drive.

With that done, you should be able to reboot normally into fluxbox (if your video hardware is half-way decent) and install from there (it will automatically see and use the swap partition).

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Gnufsh Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: June Lake, California	Slackware, Debian, or LFS maybe? __________________ Lost access to the classifieds? Look here. Forum Policies Sig Rules "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -Sir Winston Churchill
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03-18-04, 11:54 AM	#3
klingens Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Xanadu	Anything without X. I'd suggest on of the mp3 distros on freshmeat.net. The smallest ones are fitting on a floppy but have mp3 playback support
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03-18-04, 11:55 AM	#4
Arkaine23 Captain Random Senior Evil Genius Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Woodlands, Tx	Yeah, any very basic distro might be alright like that if you do not install X and give it some good swap space. Just setup samba to share the MP3's out to other computers. DamnSmallLinux would be easy to install. It's got X and fluxbox and a light web browser, it is a very basic debian otherwise and installs like knoppix. You would need to boot using cheatcodes to run in text mode the first time, then probably run cfdisk and create a swap partition on your hard drive. With that done, you should be able to reboot normally into fluxbox (if your video hardware is half-way decent) and install from there (it will automatically see and use the swap partition). __________________ Folding.for.team.32.as.OC3d! i5 3570 @ 4.5 \| 8GB \| SSD \| 5-disk Raid 0 \| 660 Ti +154 other/slower clients folding Last edited by Arkaine23; 03-18-04 at 12:00 PM.
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