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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,05:42 QUOTE

I've noticed that through personal testing that you cant go really slow (Im talking 233 MHz Tillamook Pentium I, It runs but it feels slow). I mean, even the windows xp installed on that thing runs faster, which is odd. Im running from a regular hdd install (Non-Frugal). Should I try anything else? Like a frugal install? Live-CD Running isnt exactly fun, lol. Im going to try running to the ram (I have 160MB installed, im pretty covered lol). Post your ideas on ideal machines/setups to run DSL on, because I might buy a DSL-Specific machine in the near future (like a VIA Eden or something).
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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,08:15 QUOTE

Dude...  How much ram are you running...

I have a P166mhz with 96mb and it runs great.  I had a frugal install until I messed it up, and now it is a standard install.  It still runs great, although I think the frugal ran a little quicker.  

Dude, I am doing things I could never do in Windows 2000 or NT on this system.  Are you sure XP even runs on that 233mhz.   XP is a total resource hog.  DSL isn't...  

DSL is by far the best OS version of Linux because of the low resources.   DSL is better than PuppyLinux or FeatherLinux... I have tried both of those and DSL is by far better.  I am a true DSL fan now and will be contributing to them.  

If you are running slow, you need more ram.  Bring it to 96 to 128, I bet you will love it then.   Hell, XP can't hardly do anything without at least 128 to 256mb...
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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,20:13 QUOTE

Try turning DMA on for your hard drive.

Either boot up with command:

dsl dma

or type:

sudo su
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

from a terminal window.  This assumes that your hard drive is located at devicename hda
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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,19:21 QUOTE

P.S.  If you have 160Megs of RAM then try the toram option on in the menu.lst of the /boot/grub menu

Yah the firefox on a 233Mhz will cause it to spike out processor usage while its bringing it up...thats just because FireFox takes 15-16Megs of RAM to fire up..

Try the dillo..it will pop right up, it may not have all the bells and whistles of FireFox..but man its fast!

Brian
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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,19:44 QUOTE

I have a P-III 450mhz, 512mg-RAM 12g-HD and with DSL on it, it runs CIRCLES around my AMD-1600, 512mg machine that runs SuSE 10.

And my AMD machine is at least 30% faster then it was the day I bought it with XP on it, 6 years ago.

I have booted it on HP's, Dell's, Gateway's and about 5 or 6 no-name's that had from K-6 to P-I chips in them and as little as 64mg of RAM.

DSL is the..(almost cursed)..Bomb. :-)


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