Little question

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Little question
started by: soulvacuum

Posted by soulvacuum on Nov. 29 2004,21:16

Hey! Just have a little question: Could I run D.S.L on an old 100mhz with 16mb ram computer? (run it from the hard-drive)
It have windows 95 on it and a 1.5gb hdd

the cd drive is at a 8x speed

The processor is an Intel Pentium
Possiblity to install usb ports (the bios accept them)

Thanx!

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 30 2004,03:49

Absolutely...however if you could kick the ram up to 32Megs or higher it would be a ton more faster

I have an old Compaq LTE 5300 with docking station 133Mhz, 32Megs ram, and 2.1 gig HD and everything works perfectly!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by littlepenguin on Nov. 30 2004,04:01

Yeah, if your interested, look < here >.

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 30 2004,17:00

yep, my 133 with 32mb ram is v fast

welcome to the forums

Posted by soulvacuum on Nov. 30 2004,21:09

I think I'll boost it up! Because I want a better gui than they showed in the 486 page! So... Thanks guys!

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 30 2004,21:21

my lil' 99mhz with 40mb ram is functional!

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Nov. 30 2004,22:43

Well, the GUI shown on the 486 page is the standard one with the standard theme, though wasn't exactly the best representation of it, and was over a year old.
DSL runs FluxBox as it's GUI, it's very lightweight and changing the style/theme can give it quite a different look - see the screenshots thread: < Screenshot Thread >
or
< http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom.php?shots/ikaro_fluxbox3.jpg >

Though you might be limited with colour depth on that machine?

Posted by soulvacuum on Dec. 01 2004,00:17

well with a 16-bit videocard... might have some color problem... But it runs nesticle very fine so I dont see that much problems, just have to add some memory! In fact, i'll run it from a cd under windows on my new pc... I heard I can try it before burn it. Is it possible? (while keeping windows)

Posted by soulvacuum on Dec. 03 2004,02:33

Yeah... I think I should do that

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 03 2004,16:45

Quote (soulvacuum @ Nov. 30 2004,19:17)

Yes...please check out the DSL embedded thread

Screenshot < HERE >

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by davide on Dec. 04 2004,14:12

*REMEMBER* to set up a swap partition and to activate it
look here < swap thread >

Posted by soulvacuum on Dec. 04 2004,16:37

I wonder, why I should do a partition? I mean, running from cd... But I have to if I want to install it in the hdd?