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   From: Christopher Lees    
   Subject: Re: problem w installing on older pC   
   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:15:04 +0800   
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   On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:48:04 +0000, Dam Weasel wrote:   
      
   > hi,   
   >    
   > i have an older laptop pC that I wanted to try Linux on.   
   > touble is, the CD reader doesnt seem to want to read modern, 700 meg    
   > CD's, i think in the old days, CD's were smaller in size like 650 meg.   
      
   Download and burn PCLinuxOS Minime - it barely comes with any   
   applications and so it fits well within 650 megabytes. Then you can use   
   the package manager program to download whatever programs you want.   
      
   Alternatively, since it's an older PC, you could try one of the   
   mini-distros like Puppy or Feather Linux. These are likely to run better   
   on an older machine.   
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