From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.47]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FEFC1A381 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 05:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.137]) by dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20100409095225.HHTG16894.dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com@dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com> for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 05:52:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.104] ([70.166.17.50]) by dukecmimpo03.coxmail.com with bizsmtp id 3MsR1e00314oyBJ01MsRsH; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4BBEF8C8.8080901@baechler.net> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:52:08 -0700 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: an observation, and question References: <20100406194904.GA32188@romuald.net.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20100406194904.GA32188@romuald.net.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:52:44 -0000 As Debian has officially stated, you must have a minimum of 128 MB of RAM to do an install. Debian itself might run on less after installation. Yes, I realize this is a late reply, but the statement that you can only install Slackware isn't true, provided you have at least 128 MB of memory. You could also set up a virtual machine to do the install and somehow use dd to copy the raw virtual image to the Pentium hard drive. You could also try an older version of Debian and upgrade. On 4/6/2010 12:49 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image, > and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The > machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram, > with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive. >