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peabody
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Posted: Nov. 29 2005,23:27 QUOTE
I have an older dell E800 (850Mhz 128MB Ram) that I was considering RAM upgrading to deploy with windows... when I came across an article on DSL in slashdot. The main focus of this laptop will actually be to create a network SMB share for my xbox media center. Should I anticipate any problems deploying DSL for this purpose?
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KC
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Posted: Nov. 30 2005,04:06 QUOTE
I've been packing PI 233 MMX with 96 GB and it does everything I want to.  I could use it as a portable digial photo album.  It plays MP3 @ 50% CPU.  It even plays mpg files (small 320x200) @ 100% CPU.  Down side is that it will not do DVD for long car trips.  It is really nice to have extra RAM.  

For Lap Remember FB???x??? command and I do a tohd=/dev/had1 to a swap drive on windows c: drive.

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Posted: Nov. 30 2005,04:43 QUOTE
DSL should work fine on that machine.

You will need to download, install and configure the

samba.dsl

extension from the myDSL repository in order to "share" your hard drive.

The install and setup process is not "point and click simple", but if you don't mind playing around under the hood and searching the forums for help when needed you should be fine.
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Posted: Nov. 30 2005,17:32 QUOTE
Quote (Guest @ Nov. 29 2005,18:27)
I have an older dell E800 (850Mhz 128MB Ram) that I was considering RAM upgrading to deploy with windows... when I came across an article on DSL in slashdot. The main focus of this laptop will actually be to create a network SMB share for my xbox media center. Should I anticipate any problems deploying DSL for this purpose?

DSL should work fine! However I would recommend doing a frugal HD install..this way your /home /opt dir will be persistant (actually written (uncompressed) to the HD and the OS will only take 50Megs (compressed and unchanged) as opposed to ~200 Megs on a "true hd" install

Brian
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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,11:33 QUOTE
Well, on my Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, Pentium 120, 64 MB nearly all works fine, beside Firefox: it's very very very slow - Dillo instead works fine and fast, but some pages of the www looks really strange.
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