Re: [LUG] A debian diary

[Sadie Brinham <barmy_fungy_fips@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Terence McCarthy wrote:
> 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

Thanks for sharing your experience.It was only an idea I was toying with 
because I can't bear to be away from my computer.I thought it'd be a 
wheeze to carry it round my flat..type while I'm in the kitchen,watching 
telly,sitting on the balcony.
Decided against it.£149 is still too expensive if I have to get more 
memory + pay a delivery charge.

On a positive note,I've tracked down a couple of Pentium IIIs for Sembel 
House.128 MB RAM.
I *know* that'll be plenty,since I've got an old Pentium II with the 
same RAM supporting XP Pro.It's been 6 months since business required 
booting it,though!

Sadie

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