User Feedback :: 16MB was not enough :(

Thanks all for your replies. I will try out the suggestions this week. From what I can understand, I'm think I'll try adding a swap partition ~160MB. If it runs ok then do a quick HD install and try the stuff cbagger01 said.

I'll be checking back often but please expect results in a week. Wish me luck!

I have been throug this

make a swap partition
boot into textmode and cfdisk
then mkswap /dev/hdayournumber
then swapon /dev/hdayournumber

a hd install will speed things up as well

that should do it,
you can use dillo now (and several other small apps)
firefox takes several minutes to load
and opera is just useable if your a very,very, patient person

my advice; get another 16 or even 8 megs of ram
and you'll be flying compared to 16meg

What about setting up a swap file on the DOS partition - click swapfile button in the fluxbox menu: / System/ Setup Dos Swapfile / and follow prompts. This is supposed to perform in the same way as a swap partition for those who don't want to repartition but what improvement this offers over 16MB physical ram I cannot say. I've just tried this out on top of having a swap partition and it appears to speed things up a little bit more.
cbagger's boot time option should work. On first live CD boot if you type in the 'fb800x600 base noicons' at the prompt and then HD install and install Lilo, your 'live' video and X desktop settings will be remembered and duplicated on the subsequent HD boots.

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