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Jon_i386

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Posted: Sep. 13 2005,00:50

I found a laptop on e-bay, it's an old(er) Sony VAIO, Pentium 3, 12gb HD, 64mb ram, I could upgrade it. But for now, would it be alright running DSL?

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Posted: Sep. 13 2005,01:18

Quote (Jon_i386 @ Sep. 12 2005,20:50)

I found a laptop on e-bay, it's an old(er) Sony VAIO, Pentium 3, 12gb HD, 64mb ram, I could upgrade it. But for now, would it be alright running DSL?

It would run very well

I would recommend you create at least a 128Meg swappartition to aid the OS due to light RAM, however it should run just fine...

If you have problems with sound and other things do a google for that particular laptop and linux and im sure someone has already figured out the IRQ and interrupts for the different peripherals that arent autodetected

Good luck

and

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,03:14

Sounds a lot like the model I have, but it's a PII-400, not a PIII. Runs smoothly with DSL! I tried before a full Debian install, but it was quite sluggish, so I went back to dsl. It recognized out of the box the audio, usb, usb-ethernet adapter, firewire (untested). No luck with the camera though...

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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,03:42

I am running DSL on a Compaq Armada 7800, pII 266, 96M ram. Runs very well from LiveCD and the hard drive. From the LiveCD with the toram option I was amazed at how fast it was, even with only 96M ram (didn't use it hard though, just tested). I have Ubunto on another partition and it takes considerably longer to start up and once started Ubunto is noticeably slower running X. I have another partition with /home and both DSL and Ubunto share that partition so when I log into either one I have the same home directory. I am having trouble using apt-get to get XDM and g++ working (just found out about gcc1.dsl tonight so will try that for development). Anyone have a graphical login working?

Eventually I would like to get an App server running DSL and have several older laptops (compaq 486 and panasonic toughbook 133) as X terminals running DSL.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,21:07

http://tuxmobil.org/sony.html

This might help as well

Brian
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