Re: Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

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On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 03:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.)
----
I generally got the impression that much of the 'reported slowness' of
FC-3 related to the lack of pre-linking for the oft-used programs such
as openoffice and firefox.

But I am not knowledgeable about these things.

Craig


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