Frugal install on flash with a 42MB ram?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Frugal install on flash with a 42MB ram?
started by: wultsch

Posted by wultsch on Mar. 29 2006,21:15

I have a toshiba 420cdt (100Mhz pentium, 42 MB) that I would like to do a frugal install on a ide flash drive. I use the laptop almost exclusively as a thin terminal using rdesktop. When booting from a cdrom I end up using something like 1.5 MB of swap used, and as I understand it swap on flash is a big no no. Any suggestions? I am planning on using:
< http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/44/products_id/515 >
which says it is good for 1M+ cycles.

Also on a frugal install is there is simple way to have it boot to 800x600x16bit. The fb800x600 only affects the console on my machine, not x11.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 30 2006,18:05

Try booting with this cheatcode:

lowram

it should use less memory.

If you need to change the resolution for X11, boot this way:

lowram xsetup

and select your resolution