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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:32:39 +0000 Sadie Brinham <barmy_fungy_fips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've never had a laptop.Though I saw some 4 GB Pentium IIs with a whopping 64 MB of ram for £149 each.Perfect for an experimental installation....
You may well find it less than perfect. I've spent most of the weekend stripping and re-installing M$ on a 64Mb RAM Sony Vaio. That was a drag (for a friend of a friend, whose son had used it to download risque sites garbage and God knows what virii), but the upside was that she was prepared to try Linux on the second of two partitions. Whatever I tried I had problems- too little memory. I used various methods to establish a decent swap partition that could be recognised by an installation programme, I tried the SuSE live eval install to get a working installation, I tried Knoppix, I tried ................... No go. If I was doing it for mayself I would go wayyyyy back and try to upgrade from a much earlier distro once installed. I didn't try Smoothwall using a boot CD, but it was never going to be a firewall anyway! YMMV Terence -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.