Help with a REALLY Old Machine

[Ewan Grantham]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:08:59 +0100, Ingo Lantschner <ingo.lists at vum.at> wrote:
> Ewan Grantham wrote:
> > Am trying to help my sister-in-law with getting Linux on an HP Vectra
> > VL/133 (Pentium 133 Mhz with 64 Megs of RAM, 2 Gig HD, 1 Meg video
> > card) that I added a DVD-ROM/CD drive to.
> If you have solved the Boot-prblem, have a look here:
> 
> http://www.binonabiso.com/en/Ubuntu-miniRAM-HOWTO.html
> 
> (You should consider to use Abiword and gnumeric instead of OpenOffice,
> since you have only 64 M in your machine.)

Am planning to try the floppy boot manager solution that I've received
from a couple folks over the weekend. With that and the guide you
linked to above, I should be able to get her going (he said keeping
his fingers crossed)...

Thanks!