Hi! Ed,   
      
   On Mon, 05 May 14, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV> Could U'u 12.04 be installed on a PC with 48Megabytes (Not GB) RAM?   
    EV> The HDD in the PC is smaller than 2GB?   
      
   Nope.  It needs roughly 1Gb these days, though... just checking a vBox   
   setting... yeah, the Xubuntu 12.04 LTS vBox is set for 960Mb.  It's so big   
   that I can't run it & Barb's XP vBox at the same time any longer.  You have   
   plenty of HDD space there for something useful at least, Ed.   
      
    EV> OR   
      
   Hang on.  Is this a test?  Nope.  It ain't in Holger's list.  Phew!  :)   
      
    EV> Could DSLinux or Mint or Puppy be put on that box?  Thanks!   
      
   It won't with Puppy.  It needs a minimum of 256Mb these days, and likes to   
   have 512Mb.  Even the old ones from the version 2.xx days liked to have 128Mb.   
      
   I'm not sure of DSL but remember that it's really only a "rescue" thing for   
   desktops.  'Distrowatch' (distrowatch.com) says it can use "as little as   
   128Mb".   
      
   I don't know anything about Mint but Distrowatch advises that it's based on   
   Ubuntu.  So, I think you're up the proverbial creek with that one too.   
      
   It might be possible to build a Debian-based, text only, kernel but that would   
   take an expert.  That isn't in my ballpark.  If you could 'up' the RAM to   
   128Mb then you could try an old Puppy.  They're still available for download   
   from their site (http://puppylinux.org/main/How%20to%20download%   
   0Puppy.htm#old).  Either that or DSL.   
      
   Good luck with it.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... In case of emergency, break glass.  Scream.  Bleed to death.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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