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dh_racer

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,17:51

I catch on quick, but I am hanging up here. I have an old POS box, that I installed Fedora Core 2 on, but being a Pentium II and 333Mhz ad limited memory, the thing is hogging a ton of resources.
So I have come to DSL. Now, my question is, how do I get rid of Core 2 and just run DSL.

dh_racer

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,18:02

I am figuring eiher from tools..install to hard drive or FRUGAL Install, the problem as I see it, correct me if I am wrong, the CORE 2 app is taking up a huge amount of space.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GEnuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II Deschutes
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 334.096
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 666.82

Need more info?

green

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,18:48

I'm a noob as well, so this is probably not the 'correct' way to do it.

I have an old PII as well. So, I set up the partitions on my hardrive first, using the DSL Live CD cfdisk utility. While running the DSL Live CD, I right clicked on the desktop --> XShells --> Root Access. Then typed in cfdisk. (that works for if you only have one hard drive as it defaults to /dev/hda) I was able to see the current partitions (NTFS at the time), I deleted all partitions, then setup a Linux partition as hda1, then a swap partition (/dev/hda5, type 82 to equal the size of my RAM), then partitioned the rest of the disk with type Linux as hda6.

After partitioning, I rebooted, coming up on the DSL Live CD again. Richt clicked the desktop, --> Apps --> Tools --> Install to Hard Drive. It asks the question at some point where I wanted to install to. I told it hda1. It formatted it anad did it. At the end of the install I said 'yes' to mkliloboot. It ran like a champ.

Hope this answers your question. What I did blew away the Windoze stuff and the NTFS partitions.

dh_racer

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,19:09

Ok, yea I was looking into how to make the partitions, b/c with Fedora it did it for me. So I assume it will wipe Fedora off, all though I have my doubts. I think once I get it going it will work like a champ, I am impressed how much better it runs than the Knoppix Live CD I also have.
Thanks for your tips.