Distro for aging laptop -- bootable CD?
Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.org
Sun Dec 14 21:58:12 CST 2003
This may not be for someone faint at heart, but...
What I did recently was take a linux-BBC disc and start the gentoo
installation from there. And I have less of a laptop than you! NFS'ing
into the box from a cpu-endowed box and compiling takes about a day to put
kde/gnome on it. The build directories were mounted between computers to
share what little resources I had.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Bradley Miller wrote:
> I've got a P233 Toshiba with 96Mb in it. I found the new Mandrake "Move"
> that allows you to boot from CD and access a USB storage device. It works
> pretty slick -- has Openoffice 1.1 and configures the network and works
> flawlessly. I even found the Minolta QMS 2300DL and printed to it from
> CUPS. I tried the CD on my laptop and it kind of groaned and managed to
> sort of boot up. The graphics were crap and it was very slow -- the
> Mandrake "Move" requires at least 128Mb of memory. Does anyone know of a
> similar distro that will boot up and occupy less space? There once was the
> DemoLinux CD's, but I don't think I ever had one boot up on a laptop
> right. I've got a 4 gig drive in the laptop, so I could theoretically
> install two OS systems . . . but I'm still torn on that prospect. I do
> need to do a new install on that box because of a virus on it . . . but I'm
> not energetic enough to try it. I still need Windows capability on it.
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> Bradley Miller, Owner/Programmer/Designer
> AccessZone Design - www.accesszonedesign.com
> Blue Springs, Missouri
> Phone: 816-228-3814 Fax: 775-254-6162
> Toll-free: 888-872-4420 ICQ: 48555780
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