I've done it with an Olivetti philos colo 45, It's a notebook quite aged, I've installed Slackware without graphical interface and it runs quite good, look for an old version of slackware, like slack 7 that's still on diskettes, I've had some trouble installing, but with a few googling you can find you way, by the way I have to say there were win95 on the machine and it ran quite good even with that. Anyway I think it's always astonishing resurrecting an old machine, good work man!