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Posted: July 17 2006,15:51

Yea brian... I started thinking about that last night. Just leave 500mb for DSL, 125mb for swap, and the rest for windows.

My laptop has a AMD processor 495Mhz or something like that, and it has 32 mb of RAM.

The reason I'm switching back to windows is because the netcard I have now is not supported. And my laptop does not have an ethernet plug-in spot, just a dial-up modem. I'm thinking about getting an Ethernet cardbus but would it work in DSL?

brianw

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Posted: July 17 2006,19:55

The processor is no problem (plenty of speed for DSL) but the 32M would be pretty light for frugal install (regular HD install would be better, if you could upgrade the ram you would have a screeming machine with DSL).

I have used SMC and SOHOWARE (a 16 bit card) pcmcia cards with success. I have also used an SMC USB dongle with success (used it on laptop and several desktops).

Good luck and I think once you get the network working you are going to love DSL.

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Posted: July 18 2006,00:34

You want to go back to windows, how long have you been using Linux?

DSL is a great distro for slow and aged machines. But it isn't exactly the best distro to learn linux, because they do some tricks to get that LiveCD enviorment working.

My experiance even Debian or Slackware runs on my Laptop better and faster than Win98, not to mention the blue screen of death and all his kin, which don't reside in the linux family.

If you nic doesn't work with Linux get another, Tiger Direct has some for as little as 10 bucks sometimes.

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Posted: July 18 2006,01:08

If things are really tight you can use the win396.swp file that windows 98 will create in the /windows directory for a swap file. That way you will not need a swap partition. A swap partition is probably better but a swap file will work. You can use both (partition and file) at the same time.

To use the swap file from windows 98 on hda1 you would use these commands after mounting hda1 to /mnt/hda1

sudo mkswap /mnt/hda1/windows/win386.swp
sudo swapon /mnt/hda1/windows/win386.swp

good luck

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Posted: July 18 2006,04:30

Ok... I didn't really read any of those... lol

I've decided to stay with DSL because I got a USB Ethernet Adapter. so now I have internet on the laptop.

All is well. Thanks for all the advise everyone

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