installation compaq armada 1120?

Forum: Laptops
Topic: installation compaq armada 1120?
started by: alcak

Posted by alcak on Nov. 15 2004,17:12

hi there everybody...

i am using linux distros for some time now but this is da first time i found this one...

it looks interesting and i am thinking of trying it...

i have an old

Compaq Armada 1120
CPU: Pentium (100 MHz i think)
RAM: 8 MB
HD: 850 MB
Graphic: Cirrus Logic

now i would like to know can i use (with no turtle like action)DSL on this laptop without any hardware upgrades, because right now on this laptop is it's original windows 95 install and it works pretty good.
i would like to know what can i expect: will DSL's performance (speed, data manipulation,etc) be similar compared to windows 95.
i wish to note that i cant wait to get rid of the winblows, but at the same time i cant afford to invest some 50EURO for extra 32 MB DIMM RAM module because the laptop itself is that much.

please help.

thanx.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 15 2004,17:42

8mb of ram?

DSL will be slow on it, but win95 is teh suck.

fire it up from live-cd and have a test.

-J.P.

Posted by thenuke on Nov. 15 2004,18:31

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8mb of ram? DSL will be slow on it, but win95 is teh suck.

Does it get any better if he does HD-install AND fires up a little swap partition?
And is 8megs really enough for fluxbox if there is no swap even?

Like SaidinUnleashed already told you Alcak, try to fire it up from a CD and check how bad it is.

Posted by davide on Nov. 15 2004,18:36

I've been reading almost all posta bout dsl and old hardware for a year and the least hardware dsl is running on is a 486 12Mhz with a swap partition on.
It seems that there reallly is no hope of making it run with 8Mhz, even with swap.
Nevertheless, it's always worth trying...
(btw, maybe you can get a simple 8 or 16 Mhz dimm for muche less than 50 euros..) :cool:

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 15 2004,20:29

I believe 8Megs isnt gonna make the cut.
Even with 16Megs of ram on my old 75Mhz laptop it takes 12-14 just for the small x that DSL has to run (no icons on 0.7.3) 8Megs will either grind to a halt or not run at all, even with a huge swap

I would recommend minimum 16-32Megs for DSL, otherwise running it in X will bog it down to unuseable...text only might be a different story

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Bidi on Nov. 15 2004,22:59

I got this site from another post I have going on the HD Install section:

< http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ >

They're all floppy distros. Keep in mind each one has it's own little usage, none of them can do everything like DSL.

Posted by skaos on Nov. 16 2004,11:18

Also take a look at Basic Linux, < http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/ > - it is about the only linux distro that will run X with only 8 MB.

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 16 2004,17:27

My suggestion is to spend a tiny bit of money, even though it is a worthless dinosaur...it will be alive and kicking (an fast as hell to many peoples disbelief) if you could slap 32+Megs of ram in that mug for under 40 bucks!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by alcak on Nov. 20 2004,16:52

ok guys...

i will try to do something... but anyway thanx...

in the end i really prefer even to spend some money to get some RAM then use win95...

take care guys and be good...