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The right distrobution

by Dawg Monitor Sep 7, 2009 11:57AM PDT

To those who may concern, thanks if you can help.
The windows 98SE on my laptop is really eating space, but I guess I can't dislike it for being on a 2GB HDD. So now, I have attempted to reduce high space for good upgrade-ability. So my question is, is there any distribution that CAN install to the HDD, be booted up by an old laptop, being upgradable and takes 1GB of space or less with good GUI function?
SLAX is preferred on version 5, but can't find installing instruction in addition get Slackware that eats my laptop and 6 unable to complete boot. DSL GUI is bad because I can't find a file explorer, still a Linux novice. Someone suggested Kubunut if you remove some thing, but not sure if I can get far (will test later).
Specs of Laptop:
Toshiba satellite pro 460cdt
64MB ram
2GB HDD
CD drive
Pentium 1 processor, either 133 or 166 MHz
2MB video card
No wireless or LAN

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64Mb of RAM

by arochester Sep 7, 2009 9:35PM PDT

With only 64 Mb of RAM you are very limited. Look at DSL, Puppy Linux,Slitaz and Tiny Core Linux.

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Tiny

by indovb Sep 9, 2009 11:00AM PDT

Tiny Me, DSL, Puppy Linux

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Puppy linux

by Dawg Monitor Sep 9, 2009 1:45PM PDT

Thanks for the replies
Little research on puppy Linux, the first version said to would out on the Pentium I processor with 32 MB of ram, which seems quite plenty. Though, I'm hoping that it would work out as fast as window 98SE, but with less space.

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Puppy

by GODhack Sep 10, 2009 7:41PM PDT

Puppy is really faster than win98 and has ~ win95 needs.

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