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alcak

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,17:12

hi there everybody...

i am using linux distros for some time now but this is da first time i found this one...

it looks interesting and i am thinking of trying it...

i have an old

Compaq Armada 1120
CPU: Pentium (100 MHz i think)
RAM: 8 MB
HD: 850 MB
Graphic: Cirrus Logic

now i would like to know can i use (with no turtle like action)DSL on this laptop without any hardware upgrades, because right now on this laptop is it's original windows 95 install and it works pretty good.
i would like to know what can i expect: will DSL's performance (speed, data manipulation,etc) be similar compared to windows 95.
i wish to note that i cant wait to get rid of the winblows, but at the same time i cant afford to invest some 50EURO for extra 32 MB DIMM RAM module because the laptop itself is that much.

please help.

thanx.

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,17:42

8mb of ram?

DSL will be slow on it, but win95 is teh suck.

fire it up from live-cd and have a test.

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,18:31

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8mb of ram? DSL will be slow on it, but win95 is teh suck.

Does it get any better if he does HD-install AND fires up a little swap partition?
And is 8megs really enough for fluxbox if there is no swap even?

Like SaidinUnleashed already told you Alcak, try to fire it up from a CD and check how bad it is.

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,18:36

I've been reading almost all posta bout dsl and old hardware for a year and the least hardware dsl is running on is a 486 12Mhz with a swap partition on.
It seems that there reallly is no hope of making it run with 8Mhz, even with swap.
Nevertheless, it's always worth trying...
(btw, maybe you can get a simple 8 or 16 Mhz dimm for muche less than 50 euros..) :cool:

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,20:29

I believe 8Megs isnt gonna make the cut.
Even with 16Megs of ram on my old 75Mhz laptop it takes 12-14 just for the small x that DSL has to run (no icons on 0.7.3) 8Megs will either grind to a halt or not run at all, even with a huge swap

I would recommend minimum 16-32Megs for DSL, otherwise running it in X will bog it down to unuseable...text only might be a different story

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