On 28 July 2011 03:09, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
you can build the kernel RPM
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:33 +0100, Michael Simpson wrote:
ok mum, lets get you setup with centos6..oh dear.. it looks like you
bought your laptop at exactly the wrong period in intel's mobile cpu
history...unlucky. Ah well, lets go down to $PC_VENDOR and get you
something with m$'s latest
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Always Learning wrote:
*snip*
... and do not forget to pay the GBP 90 (Euro 100, USD 150) compulsory
Windoze tax on the new computer ! In England it is impossible, in my
experience, to purchase a new computer from a major retailer without
paying the Windoze tax.
Yes.
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an
older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the
kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a
On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an
older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be
rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a
On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:53 AM, Marc Deop wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an
older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the
kernel that needs to be
Unfortunately I do not have such system available :(
The pentium M I'm using is PATA based an my other systems are SATA. I might be
able to get an external hard drive or something
like that...
I'll look into it, thanks for the info anyway :)
Regards
Marc Deop
On Wednesday 27 July 2011
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:53:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on
an older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it
On 07/27/11 4:55 AM, Marc Deop wrote:
Unfortunately I do not have such system available :(
The pentium M I'm using is PATA based an my other systems are SATA. I might
be able to get an external hard drive or something
like that...
you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 10:15:25 John R Pierce wrote:
WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP???
Dude, take it easy. Calm down.
I did not spend more than one 1minute on it. I downloaded the Red Hat Beta 6
and tried to install it on the laptop. At the moment I
saw there was
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and
WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Get over
it. Either run what works on it, or get suitable hardware to run what
you need.
Merely
On 7/27/2011 12:23 PM, Marc Deop wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 10:15:25 John R Pierce wrote:
WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP???
Dude, take it easy. Calm down.
I did not spend more than one 1minute on it. I downloaded the Red Hat Beta 6
and tried to install it on
On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
The 26 66cm television is my bedroom is 14
years old.
and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as
well as taking 2 feet or more of depth.
re; the 6 yr old laptop... I in fact have a old pentium-M PATA laptop
myself. I
Hey, I have 2 PIII 550 / 650 Mhz laptops I use running CentOS 5.6 (FVWM
for example) - they work just fine (OK maybe firefox can be punchy) - but
for Xterms or even as VNC clients - they rock. CentOS 5.6 runs just fine
on them too...
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/27/11
I wonder then what people would think about my running SL6 (centos 6
wasn't out yet) on an old P3-866 Toughbook w/ 768MB RAM? :)
Only machine in my inventory that I can drag *everywhere* and still
doesn't complain.
--
Drew
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John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
The 26 66cm television is my bedroom is 14
years old.
and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as
well as taking 2 feet or more of depth.
And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if
On 07/27/11 11:29 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it off,
it does*not* draw power.
Many CRT's made in the last 20 years kept the filaments preheated so
they could fire up faster. and of course, anything with a remote
control that
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
*snip*
Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything
Of course. The smallest usable Linux distros I know of is:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
# Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
# Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you
John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/27/11 11:29 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it
off,
it does*not* draw power.
Many CRT's made in the last 20 years kept the filaments preheated so
they could fire up faster. and of course, anything
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 02:50:31 PM Keith Roberts wrote:
DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how
many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live
CD.
Somewhat off-topic for the CentOS list however, another good one is
TinyCore (and without the possibly
Keith Roberts wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
*snip*
Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything
Of course. The smallest usable Linux distros I know of is:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
# Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
# Run fully in RAM with
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and
WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Get over
it. Either run what works on it, or get suitable hardware to run what
you
Oh wow 768 MB - nice. My laptops have 256 MB and 384 MB - how's that for
old :)
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Drew wrote:
I wonder then what people would think about my running SL6 (centos 6
wasn't out yet) on an old P3-866 Toughbook w/ 768MB RAM? :)
Only machine in my inventory that I can drag
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Marc Deop damnsh...@gmail.com wrote:
And how exactly would you do that if the installation just can't proceed if
it detects you do not have a PAE processor?
Here's a work-around method posted at Scientific Linux to install
version 6 on a non-PAE computer. I'm
I was pleased as most of that era toughbook had 256 or 512 if you were
lucky. I upgraded the drive to 80GB and I dual-boot XP for a couple
apps. Fun machine.
My first linux box, a Redhat 4 machine, ran on a Pentium-133 and had
32megs when I got it. RH6 wouldn't install and I had to custom compile
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and
WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Get over
it. Either run what works on it,
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and
WHY ARE YOU/WE
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an
older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be
rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are there
other components that would cause problems and need to be rebuilt
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an
older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be
rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are
there other components that would
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