I have an old Pentium 1 computer with a 1 GB hard drive. I want to put Linux on it, but I think most installers need more than the 16 MB RAM that this computer has. Also, I have the install disks for Red Hat 9, but it takes 2-3 GB hard drive. I don't want to be stuck with just the kernel and the GNU tools, I want a GUI too. Does anyone have any suggestions for a Linux distro that would be best to use?

By the way: It can run Windows 95 taking up only about 1/2 of the hard drive. I want something comparable in Linux.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

idk vmlinuz maybe ? :huh:
Or muLinux

damnsmall is a little too small...

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ puppy linux. looks good, but the computer i want to install it on wont run the disks properly, but this computer will weird eh? may as well give it a shot i guess. btw on that it doesnt look like theres too many of the standard utilitys. just one thing to keep in mind.

Yes Puppy Linux looks good- too good to be true. Takes 128 MB RAM; probably meant to sit along side whatever operating system you have on your computer already.
But wait! There's more!

DeLi Linux is specifically made for old machines. (It stands for Desktop Light Linux and means crazy Linux in turkish)

It is based on Slackware and can boot from CD or, if you can't do that as it is in my case, boot from floppy.

The 1GB HDD isn't the problem finding GNU/Linux distro, it's the 16MB RAM that is. Relasticlly, you should really have at least 32MB to use X-Windows stuff...

I once heard of a debian distro in floppy disk format that would work slow, but work on such a pc (wantede to do it myslef but my mom wanted to play tetris on that thing :P )

Use BeOS!Or even MOS(Menuet OS)

DLX Linux: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html
Doubt it's what you want though. ;)

As I said before, I think what I want is DeLi Linux. My only problem so far is my CD drive is messed up and won't allow me to read anything...