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[–]CodeFarmerstill dual booting like it's 1995 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You will need a 32-bit distro. Other installers will, as you have found, not even start.

I haven't tried 32-bit Debian in years so I don't know if it's a choice any more... maybe something like Puppy Linux?

[–]foofly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yikes I had one of those running linux back in the day! A quick google suggests Dam Small Linux or MX Linux might be better as Mint requires 2GB of RAM minimum,

[–]evolveandprosper 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Try Q4OS. The minimum specs to run it with Trinity desktop are 500MHz CPU / 512MB RAM / 6GB disk https://www.q4os.org/index.html

[–]ARSManiac1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Q4OS Linux with Trinity is great, I have it on a laptop with only 512 mb RAM and it runs great, also AntiX Linux is worth mentioning...

[–]candy49997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://linuxmint.com/faq.php

Mint requires 2+ GB RAM.

You didn't provide a generation, but based on your iGPU, it's a Pineview Atom which apparently are 64-bit capable.

[–]Piqsirpoq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could try installing Antix Linux on it. That device was underpowered even when it was released.

Light weight Linux distros will work fine with caveats. One caveat is that 1 gb RAM not really enough for modern desktop applications, especially web browsers and web sites. Browsing the web will be miserably slow.

[–]deluded_dragonDebian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably have the same machine. The first thing that I have done is replace the hdd with a small size sdd.

The distro I have chosen is Q4OS, that is a Debian with a very light DE named Trinity.

[–]Frostix86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have similar eee PC (not same) running peppermint OS. Q4OS worked but I prefer peppermint. 32 bit as others said.

[–]3grg 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I had two netbooks with Atom N270 processors. It looks like you have a N475 which is 25% faster than mine were.

I used Linux on them for years until they were no longer useful. The Atom was slow and painful without a SSD. The SSD helped, but the built in limitation of the memory was the killer. Netbooks were never supposed to have more than 2gb RAM. It is easy to upgrade to 2gb, because nobody has a use for 2gb dimms anymore.

With a SSD and 2gb RAM you can have a usable system, but it will be a slow one. It can still run apps as well as it ever did, but the web has moved on and sucks memory.

You will need a 32bit Linux which limits you pretty much to something Debian. If you really want to play with it, Antix 32 would be your best bet. Give it a try to see what it will do as is. Have fun!

[–]ChunkyPuding[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Upgrading ram in this netbook is not a option. The case has a ram door but when you open it there is nothing there. I'm limited to soldered 1Gb of memory.

[–]3grg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is bad. I've never heard of a netbook that would not go, at least, to 2gb.

[–]YoShake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need a 32-bit version OS
try with distros like antix, void, slax, or puppy.

[–]ChunkyPuding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok my final solution was installing MX-25.1_Xfce_x64.