Loojking for Lightweight Linux Installation Advice

[Goober]

Hi Guys,

I am going to be getting a Toshiba Satellite 100CS (well, ok, I am purchasing some CDs from a Friend, and he is throwing in the Laptop, which works, as kind of an extra.) Anyway, this baby is a 75Mhz, 12Mb of RAM, with a 580Mb HDD. Very old. But it works, and it has Win98 installed.

Now, what I want to do is try and install a version odf linux onto it. I know that Ubuntu, which I have on my Desktop, is too big for it. I have been looking around at other Forums and places, and determined that D@mn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, and BasicLinux will probably work, in that order. I have ruled out SLAX, UbuntuLite, VectorLinux, and FeatherLinux as being too "heavy". What I am asking here is does anybody know of any other lightweight distributions that might work, or has anybody tried to install Linux on a very old machine like this, and has personal experience?

Thanks in advance.

 

[nonconformist]

75mhz? Whoa. I know clockwork thoys that work at that rate.

 

[I am the Future]

my dad tryed that. the only problem is that a lot of the older laptops have hardware in tehm only compatible with windows. I would definetly say use an older version of mandrake if you are insistenet on it.

 

[Padma]

Virtually any distro of Linux can be made 'light'. But for the device you are descibing, I would recommend DSL or Puppy.

 

[Goober]

Yaya noncon, I know, its old, but hey, its a Laptop, and it works, and it seems to be in fairl;y decent shape.

I am worried about that, Future. I kinda hope that Linux will work on this. I will probably have to go to some really old version of Linux, probably older then the 2.4 Platform dealie.

Good to hear Padma. I shall keep thy informed.