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I found the system requirements, and it requires 32mb of ram... I am not sure how hard of a limit this is, but it is a requirement. I would still like suggestions about a distribution.
If you read the link I posted, you would see that vector 2.5 will install on a box with 16MB. Just download the earlier 2.5 version. DSL and Vector have been optimized for low memory/old hardware. There's not much else out there that will run on 16MB of ram in graphical mode.
I've got Ubuntu running on a 200 MMX with 64MB of RAM. It does work, but horribly slow. DSL booted that same box, but was even slower and I couldn't get the network card to work. I've seen a screenshot of DSL running on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. I hate to think what the wait time must be on trying to do anything though.
I think I'm going to get another cheap hard drive and try Vector on the same box. I checked the specs and it looks like I'm just under the wire for 5.1 standard.
Anyhoo-I'd bet it would install and run on your machine as-is but would be so slow you couldn't stand it.
I almost passed over amigo, because i thought you had to have windows on your computer in order to run it. I know it sounds strange, but i thought amigo was more of linux immulator. (Form the info in iso listing on this site/ under the subsection of reviews.) Sorry about that. I checked home page, read about minislack3 with the amigo package manager, which might be what I am going to go with. I am also checking out coyote; however, I value your recomendation particularly high, so i believe i will check out amigo.
Thanks for the input,
Grae
PS: Sorry to all you vector fans, I decided against Debian too, so don't feel bad.
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