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iisl

Member

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 5

very old PC

I am interesting slitaz and i have a question:

  is it possible to run  slitaz\slitaz-loram\slitaz-loram-cdrom  with gui

  on very old PC: P-133MHz, 16Mb RAM, boot from CD not supported by bios?

  I try to boot slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom via PLOP or SBM - CD is booting

  but "kernel panic" at the "mount" stage ("mounting /dev/hdd on /mnt/.cdrom

  failed: No medium found")

  Понравился мне slitaz и хочу спросить:

  как запустить(если вообще возможно) слитаз(с графикой) на старом пне: 133МГц,

  16Мб озу, биос не поддерживает загрузку с CD?

  Пробовал slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom через PLOP и SBM - CD запускается, но затем

  "kernel panic" на этапе монтирования ("mounting /dev/hdd on /mnt/.cdrom

  failed: No medium found")

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: very old PC

Well slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom should boot... We have something to fix

You can not run a SliTaz live CD in RAM with 16Mb.

But you can run Tiny SliTaz (starting with 8Mb).

Build your customized floppy from http://tiny.slitaz.org/ or easier :

download the floppy http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/tiny-slitaz

Boot the floppy and install manually SliTaz from the CD :

# fdisk /dev/<your-disk>

# mke2fs -j /dev/<your-partition>

# mkdir /mnt/disk /mnt/cdrom

# mount /dev/<your-partition> /mnt/disk

# mount /dev/<your-cdrom> /mnt/cdrom

# cd /mnt/cdrom/boot

# cat $(ls -r rootfs*gz) | ( cd /mnt/disk ; cpio -idm )

# cd /mnt/disk

# mkdir boot

# cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/bzImage boot

# umount /mnt/cdrom

# chroot . /bin/sh

# cp -al /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc /boot/grub

# vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

# grub

grub> root (hd0,0)

grub> setup (hd0)

grub> quit

....

iisl

Member

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 5

Re: very old PC

Bellard, thanks for your answer. I will trying ...

But i didn't understand - run with gui is possible or not with 16Mb RAM?

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: very old PC

Short answer : No

Long answer : with some swap you will be able to launch X eventually. But it will be so slow that you will not want to use it.

iisl

Member

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 5

Re: very old PC

it's a pity... i was hoping to revive an old PC...

But many thanks for your answers, best regards.

erdosain9

Member

Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 37

Re: very old PC

You could probably try Kolibri OS, and those operating systems, there are a couple more of the style.

Just depends on what you want.

This is a translation of google

kitty____

Member

Registered: 2012-12-06

Posts: 36

Re: very old PC

You can use Baslinux) And, maybe, old versions Slackware, Altlinux...... Good luck! But, I want to try Tiny Slitaz with elinks, network modules, mplayer

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