Linux Wary won't install on A20m, other distro suggestions?

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Linux Wary won't install on A20m, other distro suggestions?

#1 Post by Dos3.1 » Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:33 am

Greetings,

I ran Puppy Linux (Wary version) from a CD on my A20m and it ran fine - even got online using the wireless card!

But, when I tried to install Wary to the hard drive, it didn't work. It didn't recognize the hard drive. At first I thought this might be due to not enough free space, with Windows98 already on the disc, so I formatted C. But, Wary still refused to install!

Then, the system refused to load anything from the CD! I had to make a Plop Boot Manager floppy and then I was able to boot Wary from the USB.

But, Wary still won't install to the hard drive! That's ok in the end, as I don't think it's going to be a good choce, as it has no "sleep" option, and I like having that.

So, I'm looking for another Linux distro that would work well on a machine of this slow speed (500Mhz) and limited resources (128 RAM).

Any suggestions for a lightweight Linux that will run a wireless card on an A20M? Zorin lite?

Update: I have been able to install Dam* Small Linux on this machine and it runs nice and fast! There are 2 issues with this: no suspend/resume function, and no USB support. Does anyone know how to solve these?
...typed on a T60...

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Re: Linux Wary won't install on A20m, other distro suggestions?

#2 Post by kge420 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:34 pm

I have used Vector linux, http://vectorlinux.com/, on a similar spec'd Toshiba and all was well. Running it now on a T40 and an X41t.
T40p- 60gb ssd, 2gb ram,2.0gHz Dothan, Win XPpro
X41t- 40gb hdd, 2gb ram, 1.6gHz, Android 4.0.3 ICS
L412- i3, 256gb SSD, 8gb ram, Win7 x64
760C - cmos battery code issues

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Re: Linux Wary won't install on A20m, other distro suggestions?

#3 Post by DRobinson » Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:25 am

Debian?

I have run Wheezy on machines as old as pentium 2s. #! works well too.
IBM T20 (2647-86U) - 900MHz/512MB - 2x8GB CF - Atheros AR5413 mini-pci - #! IBM T23 - 16GB CF - #!
IBM T42 (2373-JTU) - 1.7GHz/1GB - HM160HC IBM 560x - 233MHz/96MB IBM 701c
Lenovo T601 (8897/2007) - T9300 - 4GB - 32GB SSD - Xubuntu 14.04

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