tjm4fun
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Posted: June 28 2005,16:29 |
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I tried it on an old tecra 520 laptop, p166 96meg ram, as a live cd, and it ran acceptably. Toram isn;t an option on 96 meg. I did the hd install
to an old 1.4 gig hdd in it, set a 300 meg swap first, and rest for the os and apps, no fancy partitioning. I had a custom slack 9 install on it, with compiled kernel, and xfce desktop on a 2.4 gig disk.
DSL ran much, much better on that old machine. IT makes a great couch pc, as it is small, and can do surfing and most chats with ease, hardly touching the swap file even with 8 tabs open, xchat, and gaim up.
imho, if you have a small hdd around, you can set it up easily on that, and once the hardware config is finalized, kill the hw scan on boot up, and you'll have a good stable machine with any installed apps there all the time. even a slow hdd beats the cd, but still will be slower than to ram, but in a minimal memory system, I think it is the best option.
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