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AwPhuch

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,22:53

Quote (Guest @ Jan. 31 2005,16:42)

People have reported using DSL ok on 16mb.
As well as swap file, you can help, I think, by making a dedicated linux swap partition. In your case, at least 32MB (try 40MB). This is recommended by DSL if I remember correctly

You can use it with 16Megs, however it is incredibly slow due to the swappage!

My recommendation is to try and find more ram

(I know it works..tested on a 75Mhz (90Mhz is turbo!)) 16Meg ram, 504Meg HD laptop-incredibly slow..yet useable)

Brian
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Bidi

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,23:00

Get a floppy distro and create a swap file using that. Tomsrtbt is my favorite. You can run fdisk and create your swap file that way.

walnut

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,04:27

Quote (AwPhuch @ Jan. 31 2005,17:53)

pfft, good luck finding ram for a laptop like mine (compaq contura 430c)

my system spec is:
Compaq Contura 430c
486 DX 100MHz
16Meg RAM
720Mb hdd
Floppy

and even if i did find some, i wouldnt be paying for it...

i dont mind it being a little but unresponsive, i only plan to install some kind of IM client,and use it for chatting... and perhaps as a DHCP server... as that only needs some lite system power....

i might go and get a laplink cable, so i can use the latest vserion

its just that i dont want to obliterate my win95 partition, making it dual boot isnt the issue, but have you ever installed windows 95 from floppy?

/walnut

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,05:55

You don't need to blow away your Win95 partition. You can run DSL from livecd, or poorman's install or frugal install without affecting your Windows 95 partition.

You can also create a swapfile on your existing Windows 95 partition as opposed to creating a swap partition using fdisk which requires either resizing the win95 partition or deleting it.

FYI,

If you don't mind text mode (console), DSL includes a text mode web browser, text editor, IM client, and mp3 player (mpg321) so it is quite possible to use the computer without the XWindows.

However, I would still try booting with:

dsl noicons base vga=normal xsetup (choose Xvesa server at the prompt)

or

dsl noicons base vga=785 xsetup (choose Xfbdev server)

walnut

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,10:22

yeah, i dont mind console only, though i know that the webrowser is a but (no offense here guys, it works well) ugly...

besides... i am much more of a point and click person late at night (when this setup will be used....)

one more question, how well does DSL take to MAJOR hardware changes? like, if i was to install the hdd into a desktop computer... how well would DSL handle being moved to a setup of completely different hardware?

/tAK

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