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Hello,

I have had some Problems with DSL, but now it works on my old Laptop (IBM Thinkpad 310E, P133 16MB 1,5GB).
I have Dos on hda1, Swap on hda2 and DSL HDInstall on hda4 (hda3 is reservt for eisfair). When I start DSL (even with minimal) firefox needs 7 to 10 min to start. I think this is very slow, I know that 16MB Ram is very very poor, but 7 to 10 minutes?!?

Is this normal? Must I switch back to Windows ???

Greetings

Snowyrain
How much swap do you got? The purpose of swap is to serve as extra memory, the more you can spare the better, i reccomend 256 at least, with 16mb your not going to get a rocket.

DSL comes with other apps that run better on that type of machine, like useing dillo instead of firefox, dillo does not have all the support you can get in firefox, but dillo is very small and fast.

Now if all you want is firefox and it's faster in dos, stay with windows.
Quote (snowyrain @ July 29 2006,10:27)
Hello,

I have had some Problems with DSL, but now it works on my old Laptop (IBM Thinkpad 310E, P133 16MB 1,5GB).
I have Dos on hda1, Swap on hda2 and DSL HDInstall on hda4 (hda3 is reservt for eisfair). When I start DSL (even with minimal) firefox needs 7 to 10 min to start. I think this is very slow, I know that 16MB Ram is very very poor, but 7 to 10 minutes?!?

Is this normal? Must I switch back to Windows ???

Greetings

Snowyrain

Try dumping FF and use Opera it's smaller and fast.
Quote (Thulemanden @ July 30 2006,00:01)
Try dumping FF and use Opera it's smaller and fast.

I have an IBM Thinkpad 380xd with 40gig hdd and 96 megs ram, which is a litlle faster than yours, but still slow. i downloaded opera, which tends to load faster. for general browsing I use dillo. i also have a swap partition setup with a gig of swap. yeah, i know its an overkill. with very little physical ram, its very important to setup a good sized swap.
Please note that FireFox on a system with 16MB of RAM ends up swapping almost the entire freeking OS while it tries to load

Either get more RAM or use Dillo
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