What do you think ? (yes, i need your opinion)

[alkalinelito]

I just "put to work" a Socket 3 motherboard, with a AMD 486 DX4 100 Mhz, 8 mb ram, a crappy 88' video card -olivetti, made in italy ,ha- , and the hard drive is pretty big ( 15 Gb's ) . ok hmmmm, i want to install linux on it, but i don't know wich distribution, i really want to do a "lightweight" installation or something. i don't know.
well yes.
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[bdl]

I'm just wondering if you'll even be able to use that big HDD on there....

[sheek]

Novice?
Try Mandrake

Know your way aroung linux ?
Try Slackware or even Debian

Slack should work well on the 100mhz chip i think

[slacker_x]

I'd be looking for something really light if I only had 8 megs of ram. Mandrake is probably a bad choice.

[nathaniel]

you can't even put a 15 gig drive on that old of a motherboard.

[alkalinelito]

The hard drive works ok, i already tried it with tomsrbtb ( or something like that the 1 disk linux distro ) , and the hard drive works perfectly, still is the only "extra " i have. i might install red hat 6 or something,
and yes, i "know my way around" in linux.

[alkalinelito]

i don't have slackware, but i friend is going to burn a copy of debian for me. yep yep

[alkalinelito]

Ohhh, maybe is that, i just have the problems, that the hard drive wont boot , hmmmmm, so i guess is motherboard fault .
or something

[TheCatMan]

Mandrake would be a bad choice - the installer and RPMS are all compiled for a Pentium, unless you get a 'special' edition, and it complained when I tried to install it with 48MB RAM. From what I hear, Peanut might be worth a look, though I haven't tried it myself.
I'd be inclined to start with an old version of any distro and build from there.

[Once-Ler]

I think you should try caldera openlinux... sure you going to have to update it a bit... but its easy to get a small gui like blackbox going and the initial install doesn't require a lot of space...