[wellylug] Laptop Toshiba 486, 540MB HDD, 32 MB RAM -- Distro?

[Vincent Cox]

Phillip Rose wrote:

>I have an old Toshiba Satellite T2130CS taking up (not very much) room, and
>am looking to convert it from its faded Win 95 past to a more useful Linux
>future. I would do just some basic emailing and maybe a little development
>stuff, depending on what I can get to run on it. It has a floppy drive but
>no CDROM drive. I have nfs going OK -- I can boot the Toshiba with Tom's
>rtbt and access my Linux box (MEPIS, a Debian-based distro) via nfs. I was
>thinking of VectorLinux (ideal size and footprint), but it doesn't offer a
>network or ftp, etc., install, and the suggested method of using some
>Slackware boot floppies just doesn't work on my machine. I get a floppy
>interrupt error and can't proceed. Nobody else on the VectorLinux forum
>could seem to get the method to work anyway.
>
>  
>
Hi

I have an old 486 laptop which I put DeliLinux on, a small distro made 
specificaly for old computers.
With everything installed including X it took up about 150MB on the hard 
drive.

Worth a look

vince