On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:10, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:25:38PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
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On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need.
Tried that. It's not
, 8 2003, 01:10, Tzafrir Cohen :
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:25:38PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
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On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need.
Tried that. It's not granular enough.
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
A large ramdrive simplfies the installer: everything is run from a
standard location. But you can use the textmode installer which (I
believe) also has smaller memory requirements. Is it an issue of not
using a ramdrive?
I figure that for Redhat the situation is the
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:36:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
i can offer NetBSD as a good and stable system for an old hardware,
they have very good support.
and they have more packages than OpenBSD.
Well, the problem here is not so much
On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need.
Tried that. It's not granular enough.
Gentoo is great for setting up a system on another box (in a chroot) and then
moving it over. It's extremely granular and if you compile with
On Saturday 07 June 2003 22:25, Dan Armak wrote:
On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need.
Tried that. It's not granular enough.
Gentoo is great for setting up a system on another box (in a chroot) and
then moving it
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:04:56PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
A large ramdrive simplfies the installer: everything is run from a
standard location. But you can use the textmode installer which (I
believe) also has smaller memory requirements. Is it an issue of
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:04:56PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
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No, I what I really wanted, was:
1. Linux kernel
2. X
With 32m of ram and a 486/66 to play with, I was just going to use it as
an Xterminal.
1. Did you consider a tiny distribution? There
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
But what happens when you want to make a change in the system? You'll
have to install the whole build environment once again? or re-attach the
hard-disc to a different computer? Both options sound very
time-consumng.
I've done this too many times, in too many ways to say
I know people running in some 266 pc's, kde cvs.
They are using gentoo, but it is optimized as any redhat/mdk for that arch.
OO will be out of the question, but I can be wrong... However more ram is a
good idea (and cheap, you can get 128mb for about 50nis I would guess).
, 3 2003, 14:08,
This is silly. I use gnome-latest in debian unstable on a PII266 with
64MB of memory, and it works fine. It doesn't fly, but it works.
Yeah, I run KDE CVS on such a low end machine too (after compiling it with
prelinking, disable-debug, enable-final where it's possible) - and that could
Hi everyone,
A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me
to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system
called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't
need anything special that Linux doesn't support, but her
Hi,
A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she
asked me to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better
operating system called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and
dandy, as she doesn't need anything special that Linux doesn't support,
but
You can try Vector Linux:
http://lwn.net/Articles/31572/
(note that I did not try it myself, just read about it in Linux Weekly
News).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:50, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Hi everyone,
A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me
to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system
called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:12:44PM +0300, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote:
I hardly think you can find something that good for her on that
machine. KDE GNOME are
out of the question with 64MB RAM (I know because I have such a
machine). Linux popular
This is silly. I use gnome-latest in debian
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