User Feedback :: DSL on "new" laptop

Today I received my "new" laptop, which is a secondhand Compac Armada Evo 600c, 1Ghz, 384 RAM, 20 GB hd. It came with Windoze XP pre-installed, but the moment I got it home i rescued the old laptop and installed DSL. Frugal, of course, with toram option. WOW! This thing rocks now! The laptop is now a killer. I installed it with a 500 MB swap disk, a 100 MB partition for the DSL image, 800 MB for the myDSL apps and the rest for /home and /opt. I hope 384 MB is enough RAM for running in toram mode... It seems like that now anyway.

This is a good day! And DSL really shines. Thanks to John, Robert, and all you other contributors for a great distro!!!



-r

Quote (reidar @ June 22 2005,12:43)

Today I received my "new" laptop, which is a secondhand Compac Armada Evo 600c, 1Ghz, 384 RAM, 20 GB hd. It came with Windoze XP pre-installed, but the moment I got it home i rescued the old laptop and installed DSL. Frugal, of course, with toram option. WOW! This thing rocks now! The laptop is now a killer. I installed it with a 500 MB swap disk, a 100 MB partition for the DSL image, 800 MB for the myDSL apps and the rest for /home and /opt. I hope 384 MB is enough RAM for running in toram mode... It seems like that now anyway. This is a good day! And DSL really shines. Thanks to John, Robert, and all you other contributors for a great distro!!! -r

reidar..

That is a very, very nice addition to your arsenal..

congrats..

You would really be 'pushing it to the limit'
to have any issues with 384MB's of ram
and a 500MB swap at your disposal..

If it were me, I'd never run it any other way BUT toram..

...wishing it gives you years of faithful service...

Schweet!

73
ke4nt

Thanks guys!

This machine looks great indeed! Only pity is that I had to give away my old laptop... That's the thing with wives, don't always understand that you can keep an older toy even though you get a new one.

Anyway, my sister in law is now the proud owner of my old laptop (compac presario 1200, 56 RAM, 6 GB hdd), with DSL frugal installed on it of course! Call me a missionary man

-r

Quote (AwPhuch @ June 22 2005,14:04)

Quote (reidar @ June 22 2005,12:43) Today I received my "new" laptop, which is a secondhand Compac Armada Evo 600c, 1Ghz, 384 RAM, 20 GB hd. It came with Windoze XP pre-installed, but the moment I got it home i rescued the old laptop and installed DSL. Frugal, of course, with toram option. WOW! This thing rocks now! The laptop is now a killer. I installed it with a 500 MB swap disk, a 100 MB partition for the DSL image, 800 MB for the myDSL apps and the rest for /home and /opt. I hope 384 MB is enough RAM for running in toram mode... It seems like that now anyway. This is a good day! And DSL really shines. Thanks to John, Robert, and all you other contributors for a great distro!!! -r Welcome to the Revolution!!! Brian AwPhuch