Another Win Bites the Dust

martialartist81

Okay, so I conviced a friend to come to the linux side of things. Her HD completely crashed (running Win98) and no longer boots properly, requiring a complete reinstall. Rather than that, I want to install a Minimalist Linux Distribution onto the system (Slax isn't recommended for actual HD loading per their website). I have two questions: 1, how would you all recommend I reformat/repartition the HD in order to install linux clean onto it? and 2, What Distribution is small, peitie, cute and likes simplicity in an owner/machine relationship? It does need at least KDE (or any decent GUI), as my friend is only used to Windows, so a GUI is necessary. I did look at BeatrIX, but I've never used it before, so I don't know how stable it is. I do need something pretty solid, nothing fly-by-code.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jonathan

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Submitted by martialartist81 on Fri, 2006-09-29 16:04. login or register to post comments

schultmc
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System stats

What are the stats of the machine she has? I'd recommend ubuntu (gnome) or kubuntu (KDE) for pretty and easy to use, but they're not small.


Fri, 2006-09-29 16:36 login or register to post comments

martialartist81
System is old. It has 64MB

System is old. It has 64MB Ram, 6GB HD, and I think I heard three hampsters running in wheels in order to power the CPU.

I use Ubuntu myself, and I would love to get it on hers, but it doesn't even have enough RAM to run the liveCD.

What about BeatrIX or something else that's minimal?

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Sat, 2006-09-30 12:19 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Minimal distros

I'm not familiar with BeatrIX. You might want to take a look at Damn Small Linux.


Sun, 2006-10-01 11:39 login or register to post comments

martialartist81
Thanks, Chief!

Thanks, Chief!

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Sun, 2006-10-01 12:18 login or register to post comments

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Puppy

Puppy Linux is also small and more Windows-like than DSL (which I also like).

http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1

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Sun, 2006-10-01 13:23 login or register to post comments

martialartist81
Thanks again! You guys are

Thanks again! You guys are awesome.

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Sun, 2006-10-01 22:28 login or register to post comments

martialartist81
BeatrIX LiveCD/Install

I went ahead and installed BeatrIX on the system (333mhz, 64MB) and it's working fine. I even patched up with Open Office and a few games and it still runs like water down a mountain stream. God bless Linux, God bless Mr. Scrooge for turning me away.

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