I tried that with a similar machine, p133 with 64 meg ram, it worked…sorta. Very very slow! I ended using a distro more suited for that environment. Dam small Linux and puppy Linux both do a great job. Dam small (DSL) has more features while puppy is faster both will install to hard drive (both are less than 50 meg) I am not sure if they will run on 32 meg though but certainly will on 64. maybe you can scare up an old stick of ram somewhere.

It certainly does help. That is very useful information.
I have Damn Small Linux and will install it rather than Ubuntu which I
will save in case I stumble over a more advanced machine in my ravels.

A friend will be coming by soon to install more ram in exchange for an
unused tape drive.

I put redhat 6.0 on a 486-dx 66 years ago with 64 meg of ram
and anything in console mood worked great. But, X windows worked, but
was really slow.

66 years ago? I guess that mean Red Hat is older than Windows :)

Seriously, have decided the P133 is a boat anchor (Gosh, I spent a
lot on in back in 1997).
I'm bidding on a
Dell Optiplex GX110 PIII 600 128MB
10GB CD-ROM Desktop with a Network card on eBay.

I figure I can run Ubuntu on that.
I've got Red Hat 5.0 but that's history, so I won't use it.

I need to proof read, DX2=66 meg,not 66 years ago. It was my
first machine to run linux on. Sept 1997. I am currently running Ubuntu
5.04, Fedora, Gentoo and win XP pro on this machine, each one on it's
own removable hard drive.