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| 15:56.28 | Deepa | What's a suitable operating system to be used on a old and slow computer? |
| 15:56.38 | Deepa | Preferrably something I could just unzip to my TFTP server :p |
| 15:58.48 | DBAmethyst | that is a loaded question |
| 15:58.55 | DBAmethyst | how old is the old slow box? |
| 15:59.39 | Deepa | 866MHz |
| 15:59.50 | Deepa | 128-256MB RAM |
| 15:59.59 | Deepa | There's actually two of them, but I want to run the same OS on both |
| 16:00.51 | DBAmethyst | what about xubuntu? |
| 16:01.26 | Deepa | I rather not have Ubuntu |
| 16:01.32 | Deepa | Then I'll just make a Debian installation instead |
| 16:02.05 | Deepa | I've only had bad experiences with Ubuntu and to be honest, I do not care if they got any better. the first impression was so bad so I'll just stick with something I like instead |
| 16:03.30 | DBAmethyst | then put deb on there |
| 16:03.41 | DBAmethyst | 866 ain't that bad |
| 16:03.51 | DBAmethyst | would do more though to bump the ram up |
| 16:04.15 | DBAmethyst | I run a 500 with 640MB. |
| 16:04.22 | Deepa | oO |
| 16:04.48 | Deepa | But the bad thing with Debian is I'd have to make a install :p |
| 16:04.48 | Deepa | I've never ever used PXE before |
| 16:05.05 | Deepa | Could I just put the installation there and install it through PXE? |
| 16:06.07 | DBAmethyst | read the howto's |
| 16:06.21 | Deepa | page is loading :p |
| 16:06.36 | Deepa | I'm using most of my bandwith for downloading Morphix atm :-) |
| 16:37.15 | Deepa | Can't I just unzip a bootable ISO and boot that? |
| 16:39.08 | Deepa | s/unzip/extract/ |
| 16:39.30 | Deepa | That is actually pretty cool |
| 16:39.34 | Deepa | s/cool/useful/g |
| 17:09.21 | Deepa | wiee, memtest works :D |
| 17:38.13 | Deepa | I'm using PXELINUX, can I get it to load the boot_image from TFTP too? |
| 17:38.23 | Deepa | It doesn't seem to do that in my case so I get a very very very limited OS :p |
| 19:29.28 | Deepa | bleh, cat, mount, umount, insmod, rmmod and lsmod |
| 19:29.32 | Deepa | not alot to work with |
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