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hello!

1st, please excuse me for my very bad english (i'm french, and i've forgotten a lot of my school lessons).

so, here is my "problem":

i have got an old notebook: IBM thinkpad 380XD.
short description: P55MMX at 233MHz, 95Mo ram (max), 3Go hdd, video NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD, sound ???, ethernet pcmcia XIRCOM carbus, wifi pcmcia card linksys (later).

i only want to use this notebook for: internet browsing, with images (jpg & gif) and sound (no video play), writing and printing some letters.
that's all!
do you think i can use sam on it?

thanks.

PS: i've try to start sam in liveCD mode, it's running slow, but running. and after some minutes, i've lost my mouse (when i try to use Gparted, it seems to start, but kills my mouse apperently).

i don't think that you will be able to use Sam on your hardware, I am sorry. If you like PCLinuxOS I would suggest TinyMe. The system requirements of TinyMe meet your stats. So give it a try.

I think Gregor ist right. There are a lot of Linux Distributions for machines with low hardware. Try Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux. Vector Linux maybe runs, too, but slow.

Greetz

Sev

Which sam did you try? Does it have the option guestlowmem. You could try this. BUT. I agree with Gregor that the hardware is really rather limited for SAM. Severus suggestions are ok and worth a try.

i try SAM 2007.

because i think that sam 2008 is too new for my old notebook.

i've started it with french , vga=788, liveCD.

PS: for the moment, i'm testing DSL, because puppy can not drive my network pcmcia card.

il faut des 128 MB RAM

je m'excuse pour mon francais, mais j'ai oubliait tous