ZoOp
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Joined: Sep. 2005 |
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Posted: April 10 2006,13:02 |
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Hi, it reminds me an old experience with a brand new HP machine, with 800 Mzh and 110 Mb Ram, with a limited 256 Mb internal flashdisk and bios enables booting on usb. I list you my experiences here:
1. I installed DSL on a usb key (not a flash drive; 1Go) in order to work with it as my everyday machine from the usb key (the terminal was not noisy, it was very little, such as a mini-itx one, in short: beautiful). Dsl runs well, but once I would like to work with a .dsl or an .uci extension, my machine could not proceed further; everything sticks, and I could reboot the machine; 2. I decided to do the same with an external partitioned HDD disk with a swap of 1 Go; but results were the same when I would like to work with an extension; 3. thus, I installed DSl on the internal flash disk (frugal) and saved one extension (openoffice) on it, too; I reserved the 110MB Ram to work with one and possible two extensions; it was possible to run openoffice; but my machine proceeded so slowly, that it was impossible to work with it.
I have learned that it is possible to use DSL as such ("naked" so to speak), with very low hardware specifications (as I experienced on a machine with processor at 400 Mhz and 64 Mb Ram). However, you have to learn a lot about DSL and your hardware itself to know how to deal with its main features in order to regulate them correctly regarding your hardware.
If you don't want to use native features only, then you have to look at the hardware specifications and possibly to improve/modify them, in order to get a full extensible DSL.
Testing supposes time to invest not only in order to know what's all about DSL, but also in order, sometimes, to update some hardware. My three experiences occupied me not during 3 weeks, but 8 weeks, since I knew, that it was impossible for me to update my hardware.
Obviously, it was a very frustrating experience; however, after looking for an "old" 486 with 800 Mghz and 256 Mb Ram, I could keep going on using dsl as my prefered os, without encountering anymore problems. yours z
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