Attic-ware

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Attic-ware
started by: anam

Posted by anam on Jan. 24 2007,16:10

So here I am posting on a rescued thinkpad 360cse. Its been an oddesy to get here. The boot scren reports a might 11Mb of memory unfortunetly its not true DSL thinks there is 9Mb.

There is no CD-rom drive & only an old type pcmcia socket (well there are two of those). I was going to do the classic poormans type install, but Tomsrtbt wouldn't boot, Hal-91 would but getting the network card working proved to be a step too far. I found an old freecom CD-rom lying around and a pcmcia card for it. Freedos got that working a bit of partition hacking with HAL-91 got me a 250mb parttiton and a 60mb oneFrom thre I was ablle to cobble a frugal type install together & then use it to do a HD-install (with a bt of messing with versions) and so here I am :cool:

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 24 2007,16:35

If you are looking at user space memory, it is some 3:1 ratio to the kernel's.

Minimum for DSL+gui I think is 16mb, though.