Kam Leo wrote:
On 12/29/06, john s. <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jim tate wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>>> Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. Great
>>> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I doubt
FC5 or
>>> FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric
>>>
>>
>> A small FC6 install will drop fine onto a 128MB box although for a
small
>> box its quicker to set up an image on a larger box, make sure it
has the
>> right i586 etc kernel/glibc installed and then rsync it using an
>> external
>> disk caddy
>>
>> A base system with X, xfce, sylpheed, abiword should be quite
>> acceptable,
>> just avoid all the heavy gnome/kde stuff.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
> Yeah, will I can't FC6 to install on a HP omnibook laptop because of ,
> only 128meg of memory.
>
Noticed the same thing with mine. Installed okay with 384mb.
Since version 10.1 OpenSuSE requires 384 MB of memory to run in live
mode. It's really a crying shame: There are so many old boxes with 256
MB or less memory and I cannot demo either of the top Linux distros on
them.
How do you convert people if they cannot try out the product? What
other live distros are in the same boat?
I ran Core 5 successfully on 128 of RAM; slower than I would have liked,
but then the box was free So I could not complain at the speed. I
found another 128 RAM and run core 6 on the same box, once again faster
would be nicer but it works well enough in most cases, the only stumble
is when I use Yum and the box seems to have a tendency to hang the Yum
process, don't know if this is hardware or a Yum issue but not really
more than a minor inconvenience.
I have also successfully installed SUSE 10, Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Sarge
on the same box all work well enough that I would not hesitate to
install on a box that is to be donated.
Currently I am using the box as a dual boot Ubuntu/core 6 (also bumped
the hard drive to 30 gig and installed a newer cd rw drive))as my prime
box rather than a newer faster and better box contaminated with XP (wish
I could upgrade the box to any Linux version but business interest
require I stay with an inferior system on one box)
