Re: Linux on older laptop

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I install on a system with low memory it starts up the swap space
immediately.  I'm not sure why it wouldn't with this one...

FTP installs generally have worked really well for me (except that they're
slow).

I wouldn't even attempt to run StarOffice on this machine.  It barely runs on
my 233 with 64  (soon to be 128) MB of RAM.  Maybe wordperfect would be
better...  there's always vi.

Good luck...
--

Wesley Leonard
marshall@pacdemon.org

http://www.pacdemon.org
"...I want Linux to be on the cutting edge, and even a bit past the edge,
because what's past the edge today is what's on your desktop tomorrow."
 --Linus Torvalds


Tony Gettig wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just acquired a Toshiba laptop, the specs of which are (as best as I can
> determine) P75, 8MB RAM, 500 MB HD. There's no CDROM. It currently has DOS
> 6.22 and WFW3.11 on it. I picked up a Linksys PCMCIA 10/100 NIC, which
> Linux seems to recognize fine. I'm trying to install RH 6.2 (BSWare).
>
> I've tried ftp install and nfs install, but to no avail. (BTW, where did
> the install over Samba go?). By ftp, I enter the IP address for the laptop,
> then the IP address and directory for the ftp server. It seems to find it
> but freezes on "second stage install" into RAM disk. I let it set for 20
> minutes, and there was no network activity. I could get to ther VC's
> though. By nfs, it seems to go a little further, then it says something to
> the effect of an unexpected error occurred and runs an orderly shutdown
> very quickly.
>
> Given the "RAM disk" hangup, my gut feeling is I don't have enough RAM to
> continue. Any thoughts? Can I create a swap partition just for
> installation? Will the install find it and use it? And is 8 MB enough to
> run a minimal gui (XFCE) and perhaps Star Office? TIA.
>
> Tony