Extreamly Poor Man Install help!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Extreamly Poor Man Install help!
started by: swyer

Posted by swyer on May 31 2006,19:42

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

Posted by pr0f3550r on June 01 2006,09:24

Is one of your partitions mounted as swap? Otherwise I bet it's too slow!

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

Posted by swyer on June 01 2006,16:40

yes, my biggest partition is setup as linux swap... im using whatever the default system settings are, i havent changed anything.

Posted by pr0f3550r on June 01 2006,18:11

post the dump from mount and top, please!

Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2006,04:57

For low ram X Window session, type:

Code Sample

lowram

at the boot prompt.

For super low ram, type:

Code Sample

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