mwt
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Posted: Oct. 01 2006,00:26 |
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I am rehabilitating a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop (PIII/700MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HD, 802.11b) for my sister-in-law's elderly mother. My S-I-L wants to try to interest her in surfing the Web, email, a few games, etc., to try & keep her mind active. After looking at a variety of distros suited to the hardware, I feel that DSL with a frugal HD install would be pretty near perfect for this. But - I do have some questions...
I've done the frugal install to a 100MB partition (/dev/hda1) and it comes up wonderfully - sees the wireless network and everything. However, I'd like to give her a persistent home so she can save email & such. How do I do that? I could swear I saw something somewhere re: "persistent home" but now I can't find it anywhere.
Along those lines, what would happen if I partitioned the entire 20GB drive and did a frugal install? Would DSL make the balance of the space available as home, use it for something else or just waste the additional space?
If these questions have been answered elsewhere, my apologies - I did a cursory search and didn't turn up anything. If they have, I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Also, if there are any other suggestions for this scenario, I'd love to hear 'em.
Thanks to all,
Mark
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