Tiny Linux distro

Shimo · Post by **Shimo** » 13 Oct 2009, 02:15

Ok I love Puppy linux for a small Distro, but the computer I want to install it to the HD for what ever reason hates puppy and grub, I had DSL with lilo on it before. I am having a hard time finding a nice distro similar to Puppy but has a lilo installer built into it. The computer only has 128 mb ram and a 40 gb HDD, any suggestions?

On a side note. I accidentally rolled over my puppy cd with my chair minutes ago. DX

Edit: I'm thinking of Feather Linux

Post by **bad_brain** » 13 Oct 2009, 04:38

Feather Linux is nice, another one you might check is Zenwalk:
http://www.zenwalk.org/

what was the problem with GRUB by the way?

Shimo · Post by **Shimo** » 13 Oct 2009, 05:13

It doesn't seem to want to sync with the cpu..... Even console grub bugs out, I noticed this problem as soon as I tried to install DSL for the first time. Funny thing though.... If I use lilo to boot into grub it works.................. Personally I just don't feel like buggering around with it for a computer from 98.

Post by **bad_brain** » 13 Oct 2009, 07:05

hm, maybe that's in context with the kernel, newer 2.6 kernels use SCSI drivers for IDE drives, and therefore the paths are sometimes wrong in GRUB. it says hda1 then for example, but because SCSI is used it is sda1...had this problem on my old system with IDE drives...

leetnigga · Post by **leetnigga** » 13 Oct 2009, 14:36

An older Slackware should work. Slackware 11 is the latest that still has a 2.4 kernel. You could run it with a lightweight window manager such as Fluxbox or a tiling window manager such as ratpoison. That should work nicely.