Distro for aging laptop -- bootable CD?
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Sun Dec 14 22:57:15 CST 2003
On Sunday 14 December 2003 03:45 pm, 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 ...
> 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.
Having run Mandrake for a while, and having just installed SuSE 9 on a laptop,
I would go with SuSE instead of Mandrake at this point. The main reason is
that the SuSE install/update/additions from the Novell FTP server have been
smooth as silk, whereas package management on Mandrake has been nothing but a
pain in the rear.
I've also found newer versions of several programs (including KDE and all it's
components) for SuSE, and I've found more binaries like drivers that are
built for SuSE than for Mandrake.
SuSE's installer offers to shrink your Windows partition, but on my Winbook
with WinMe, I had to use Partition Magic first, after which SuSE set up a
nice dual-boot.
SuSE does offer a bootable trial CD, but for a full install of the current
version you must either purchase CD's or do an FTP install. Mine took about
2.5 hrs from ftp.novell.com.
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