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Originally posted by danleff: Quote: If you have access to a cd burner, get a cd based distro like Mepis or Knoppix and see if it will run. It will run only from ram and the cd. If you get a gui, then this will tell you how difficult it will be to get Linux running on this system. If Mepis or Knoppix gives you the same problem, then you know what your in for. sorry for chiping in June for a thread that started in March 2004 I also have a M787CL+ which has "VIA C3 Samuel2 1GigaPro" [running at 733MHz] builtin on the motherboard. I have 256MB RAM, and a 40GB hard disk. While Knoppix 3.1 works like a charm, I had failed to install Mandrake 9. Luckily the problem was known to mandrake: it is reported partly here http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3#viac3 The system once ran Windows 2000 Professional rather slugishly. Details from System Information from my notes: Display Adapter: SiS 630/730 Network Adapter: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Sound: SiS 7018 USB: SiS 7001 I intend to try Knoppix 3.4 and then do a kpx2hd for hard disk installation. If there is interest, I will report it on the forum.