[wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

[Ghataora, Hardeep]

The knoppix CD will let you create a bootable floppy from the CD,
there's a batch file to do it on there, and you can install it on to the
hard disk if need be. What's the spec of the system in terms of RAM and
hard disk space?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Bourns [mailto:scott at scottbourns.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:56 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?


Thanks.

I thought about that, but he doesn't have a bootable CD drive on the
system. I think he really wants to install a new OS, anyway.

On 2/25/04 11:31 AM, "Ghataora, Hardeep" <hghataora at ccac.edu> wrote:

> Have you looked into Knoppix? Doesn't need to be installed (runs from 
> a CD), has openoffice and will give you a good feel of LINUX?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Bourns [mailto:scott at scottbourns.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:28 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?
> 
> 
> I have a friend with an older (233MHz) Compaq notebook running Win95. 
> He just purchased a new computer, and he wants to experiment with 
> Linux.
> 
> He's primarily concerned with word processing/office capabilities - 
> nothing unusual, so he'd like to run OO.
> 
> He's coming from no Linux experience, and I'm a noob, so with that in 
> mind, can you guys suggest a good distro for him?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Scott
> 
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