linux in a lappy

hey i was wondering if you guys could point me in the right direction iv recently picked up a old lappy and i want to install a small Linux OS on it its an old pice of shit its only got a 5GB HD and 96 mags of ram i just want some thing that i can surf the net on and maby have a few songs on it what would be a good live distro

[Prometheum]

Why do you want a live CD distro? (I assume that's what live distro meant.)

Arch and Gentoo are both somewhat light-weight distros, gentoo is better IMHO.

Originally Posted by firepiro

hey i was wondering if you guys could point me in the right direction iv recently picked up a old lappy and i want to install a small Linux OS on it its an old pice of shit its only got a 5GB HD and 96 mags of ram i just want some thing that i can surf the net on and maby have a few songs on it what would be a good live distro

Good luck on making 'a piece of shit' play music.

You want a copy of Linux? go to kernel.org
Load it on a floppy then use the bios to load it;
the easiest way to do it is to trick the bios to load the floppy, put 'YJ$DSfloppyc:0dyaz' as a bios password, then reboot.
EDIT: lbhegurcvrprbsfuvg,zbeba would work better, really

You can use it as an hackbox, look at the threads in my profile, there is one about hacktools.

[RAOVQ]

96 meg of ram is more than enough to play music, assuming the rest of the hardware is near spec.

on a tangent, it shits me that kids come in think that anything lower than the latest quad core system cannot do basic tasks. my old old box had 64 meg of ram and i happily ran opera with as many tabs as i would like, winamp and messenger.

Originally Posted by RAOVQ

96 meg of ram is more than enough to play music, assuming the rest of the hardware is near spec.

on a tangent, it shits me that kids come in think that anything lower than the latest quad core system cannot do basic tasks. my old old box had 64 meg of ram and i happily ran opera with as many tabs as i would like, winamp and messenger.

ya, my 96 mb laptop with a 5gb harddrive and 233mhz of ram is pimp
i still play red alert 1 on it sometimes. i think i should try starcraft too.