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Posted: May 31 2006,19:42 QUOTE
ok, so i have a 100mhz 16mb ram laptop on which i did an hd install using some slack disks.

hda1 +75M
hda2 +75M
hda4 (all the rest of a 800mb drive)

so it took about 13 minutes to boot to a point where i was in X and could move my mouse and be at a 6% cpu usage.

I thought DSL would be the distro im looking for.. How can i slim it down so i still have X and its programs, but its not so bloody slow.

what can i do? This machine supported win 9x pretty good
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Posted: June 01 2006,09:24 QUOTE
Is one of your partitions mounted as swap? Otherwise I bet it's too slow!

If you use the 'bloated' Fluxbox, switch to jwm

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Posted: June 01 2006,16:40 QUOTE
yes, my biggest partition is setup as linux swap... im using whatever the default system settings are, i havent changed anything.
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Posted: June 01 2006,18:11 QUOTE
post the dump from mount and top, please!

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How to use network - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html
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Posted: June 04 2006,04:57 QUOTE
For low ram X Window session, type:

Code Sample
lowram


at the boot prompt.

For super low ram, type:

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lowram vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce
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