Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Price
Sorry for the long delay -- just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who responded, you were all very helpful. I'm looking forward to this project -- and I'll see if I can hunt down some extra ram for this machine! thanks, matt On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:

RE: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-03 Thread Narins, Josh
Hi everyone, Hi! A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about Join the club 40s :-) to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: So does anyone have suggesions about -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small memory/processing speed budget; -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that don't require quite so much room

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Klaus Imgrund
-if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that don't require quite so much room to work as the standard OO installation needs? Would it perhaps be useful to compile stuff from scratch, rather than use generic debian packages? Compile OO? Didn't follow the

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:47:47PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:47:47PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I dont

debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it mmostly

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 10:05 PM -0500): A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive