Re: Linux on Laptop: Success!

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Anyways, I finally tried Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 Desktop and it gave me the
>opportunity to activate the swap partition on the hard drive before
>starting the install. The install went very smooth after that. I really
>only wanted to get text mode running, but it looks like X starts up too.
>Kinda slow, but it runs.

Hmmmm.  It would be intersting to see a comparison of what distribution let you
enable swap in "phase one" verses those that don't.  Does anyone know how SuSe
manages this?  (As I'm increasingly tempted to jump of the RedHat ship).

>Thanks for all the suggestions. It was all very useful. I'll get around to
>buying more RAM in a few weeks, but right now the money is being allocated
>to other things...like buying food and house payments. :)

The old food vs. RAM problem (formerly known as the guns or butter problem). 
And who says only mystics believe in fasting.

> Tony Gettig, CNE
> The Gettig Group, Inc.

Is there more than one Gettig?

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