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Research: Installing Debian etch on Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM

And here we go again!

How many of us have an old computer at home? Something like a PII with 64MB of RAM that we could not get rid of the time and now only takes up space ... Did tirásteis away? sorry, having read this before, perhaps not had done it. So yeah, now we'll see how to recycle our old Pentium, for example, into a media center. need an image of Debian 4.0 etch netboot, dischargeable in Here . Tostadla on a CD and go to your old Pentium, started from the CD and such.

1. Begin the installation as a normal Debian. I would not put the obvious steps, only those who can be critical.
   Choose your keyboard layout and location:
   
   
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   Leave a partition scheme like this:
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   assume that the team has very little hard drive, a 4 Gb and we can put everything in one partition. Once written to the disk partitions and configured the network, users etc, we choose a mirror from which to retrieve packages.
   
   Choose
   is best you go. Then select the packages you want to install, that is, except the standard system, none. You have to save space y. .. Memory! We do not want processes always running around our little RAM.
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   Once selected only "standard system" is downloaded and installed the packages, by the way, pretty quickly. Then we asked to select the screen resolutions we can make it by default.
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   restarts. Appearance:
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      For the test, I created a user called debian debian and put password as the password for root "debian" So now I will be able to log into my new Debian system:)
   , we first will:
   4. its root aptitude install x-window-system-core fluxbox
      
      so we installed the system x and the fluxbox desktop. Fluxbox is a lightweight desktop and quite powerful, perfect for a media center based on a Pentium connected to a TV and a mouse.
   5. To start the gui: startx
      
      Now, if we start the graphical environment when the system boots, you can edit the file / etc / init.d / rc.local: Below the line "do_start" add: startx
   6. Now we can install the packages that we believe appropriate, including: Web browser: iceweasel
      
      File Explorer: thunar

Player audio and video:

gstreamer-plugins-ugly


gstreamer-plugins-bad


mplayer


Document Editor: abiword





Package Manager:


synaptic



And so, to what you need. Certainly the list can be long.

A guard!