Min Spec?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Min Spec?
started by: gekkokid

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Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,08:40

I am hoping to bring to life my old compaq presario 1020,

specs being: 120Mhz, 16MB RAM, 1MB NeoMaGIC vga and 1GB HD + CD ROM

will i be able to install DSL on this old thing?

I plan to use it as a web server in my desk draw so i can share the current dsl distro and southpark episodes, I have limited experience with installing Linux so what partitioning can any1 recommend? I was planning to make a 50 or 100MB for the swap file partition is this a good size, i cant have it too big as limited to only 1GB HD space

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Posted by davide on April 02 2004,16:12

You probably will succeed, as for ram and CPU.
other people have run dsl on 486 16MB
as for swap: usually a good choice is to make a partition which is the double of your ram.
I would place swap partition as the first one (to be created). I have been told that it makes access to the disk faster. And as a swap partition is a part of the disk which is accessed continuosly..it helps.
to be frank, I don't know if it is sure. but it doesn't cost anything to try...

good luck

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Posted by cbagger01 on April 02 2004,18:36

A 250MB data partition (EXT2 format) and a 128MB swap partition is probably good enough for a hard disk install. Of course, bigger is better, especially if you are going to add a bunch of new programs and data files after your install of DSL is complete.

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Posted by hasty on April 02 2004,19:02

FWIW my version is currently about 600mbs with OpenOffice, Gimp, Firefox & loads of digi photos........

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Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:21

i am just having problems with the graphics now

i created a 48mb swap file at hda1 and set as Linux Swap?

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