Robert L Cochran wrote: > My Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop (Pentium II 364 MHz, 192 Mb RAM) is running > out of hard drive space. The machine is running Fedora Core 2. It is > still using the original 6 Gb hard drive, and has 491 Mb of free space > left. I'd love a new machine, but I'm loathe to spend the money right > now, especially as one of my kids will soon need to gear up for > university. I figure I can just install a bigger hard drive on the > machine. > > I am thinking of simply popping in the new hard drive and then > installing Fedora Core 3 to it. Does that sound like a good option -- or > will Core 3 grind to a halt? It doesn't have much memory. But the new > drive will have faster rotational speed plus an 8 Mb buffer, so that > might help a little bit. Or should I stick with Fedora Core 2, which I > already know runs slowly, but it does run. I have a Buffalo wireless PC > card that I can use with this baby for my internet connection. I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3 if you put in a new disk. 192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose. Also I didn't notice FC-3 was any slower than FC-2; Has someone said it is? I'm running FC-3 now on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook with 128MB RAM. (It used to have 256MB, but the extra memory has failed.) This has a Crusoe 660MHz processor. I'm also running FC-3 on a 300MHz Pentium II desktop with 128MB RAM. I had no problem installing FC-3, but I must admit X is rather slow. Both machines have plenty of disk-space. (I installed a 60GB drive in my Picturebook.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
