Wolvix Hardware Requirements

Medium

You'll need a CD-ROM drive to boot the CD. A 16x speed drive is recommended.
Wolvix can also be booted from a USB flash drive, you'll need minimum a 256MB drive for Wolvix Cub and a 512MB drive for the other editions.

• It's also possible to boot Wolvix from various portable music players.

BIOS

The BIOS needs to support booting from a CD-ROM and/or boot from a USB device.

• I can set my BIOS to boot from a USB zip drive and it will boot from my USB flash drive.
• Some older BIOSes don't support booting from USB flash drives.

Memory

96MB to run Xwindows with Fluxbox.
128MB to run Xwindows with Xfce.

• If you want to use the copy2ram cheat code you'll need 384MB for Wolvix Cub and 640MB for the other editions.

Processor

Most of the packages in Wolvix are compiled to run on a i486 CPU, but I don't think running Wolvix on a 486 would be very pleasant.
An i586 class (Intel/AMD) CPU at 200Mhz should be sufficient to run Fluxbox and most applications. To run Xfce I'd imagine a i686 class (Intel/AMD) CPU at 300Mhz would do fine.

Peripheral devices

In most cases I'd imagine you'd want to have a keyboard connected. You might want to have a PS/2 or USB mouse connected too.

Hard disk

No hard disk is required to run Wolvix, but it's sometimes practical to use one for storing changes. You can also install Wolvix to a hard drive if you so desire.

• It's also possible to boot Wolvix from an ISO file on a hard drive.

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