thank you DSL :)Forum: User Feedback Topic: thank you DSL :) started by: DImGR Posted by DImGR on April 23 2004,02:28
I was given the other day a very old computer. 266mhz, 32RAM and with a 3gb hard drive. MY other computers run Linux so windows was out of the question:)I tried several linux live cd's but they all made the pc to freeze twice. I guess 700MB CD's are too much for this computer to handle. I booted it up with DSL and it has been up and running for 2 days now with no problems whatssoever. Next stage is a hard drive installation. Posted by dbennett on April 23 2004,13:46
I have a similiar machine. 99mhz Pentium, 40mb RAM, 2gb disk. What I did for the harddrive installation was to create a 256mb swap partition, a 256mb bootable partition for the DSL harddrive install (this leaves room for adding any apps or libs you may need), and two other partitions where I store all of my personal data and DSL backups.New DSL versions can easily be installed on the 256mb boot partition without touching my personal data areas. (A quick script can back up your Mail directory onto your personal data partition for restoration after a new DSL install.) Posted by Delboy on April 23 2004,14:06
Hmmmm.... You have a swap partition 6 times bigger than your RAM (40mb). Is there any real performance benefits of this?. I set my swap at 100MB - a bit more than twice my 40MB RAM - I thought 'twice' was a rule of thumb and all you needed.
Posted by AwPhuch on April 23 2004,15:52
I doubt you will ever need more than a 64Meg swap...I had a buddy of mines 233Mhz with 96megs of ram and just for grinz I put 64Meg swap on there...never touched it...ever!! Brian AwPhuch |