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Posted: Dec. 07 2004,12:25

What I'm hoping to do is install DSL onto a small hard disk for a notebook that doesn't have a floppy or CD-ROM.

I have 2 notebooks, and one has a CD-ROM I can boot from. What I'm hoping to do is do a quick swap of the internal hard drives and do all the needed steps to install DSL then swap the drives again.

The question I have, will DSL trip up since the target hardware will be different or will it recognize and reconfigure itself after it boots for the first time? I'm also concerned regarding getting the hard disk setup as some drives act weird if they are formatted for a complete OS on one machine and booted on another.

Last but not least, it should run in 8MB RAM right? It might have 12MB but I can't remember how much it has. I'm just trying to get this old laptop usefull again. When I got it it's floppy was damaged. The laptop btw is a Toshiba Portege 3400/CT, the old 486 SX 25 model. (Not to be confused with Toshiba's recent Portege 34xx models which are Pentium III)

Many thanks.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Dec. 07 2004,16:13

DSL requires a math-coprocessor for it's kernel.
the 486-SX versions of X86 computers did not include one.

Also, the minimum ram for a system to boot into X is 16MB's,
and even that requires a swap file or swap partition.

While DSL does run on many older/slower systems,
my thoughts are that this system will lead you to frustration only.

73
ke4nt

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Posted: Dec. 07 2004,16:29

Quote (ke4nt1 @ Dec. 07 2004,11:13)

I agree, it takes a minimum of 12Megs for the desktop...anything less will slow to an abosolute crawl....

Brian
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