> After booting on our older P3s and P4s, I am looking for more P4s. > doudou from the CD works fine on the P4s, but is a bit slow on the > P3s. > Question: Is there any way to make a "frugal" install on linux so the > various modules will load from the hard disk instead of the CD? > Running on Dreamlinux3.3, sidux09-02 & Peppermint. I am looking for > new CD-ROM drives. Memory is non-existent for these older boxes.
We provide a fake installer which nearly behaves as if your internal HD was an USB key, see: http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/documentation-7/advanced-tools/article/installing-doudoulinux The main drawback is that it entirely wipes your HD… For computers that cannot boot on USB key, it seems also possible to have a small CD or even a floppy that just boots the computer then continues booting on the USB key (not tested of course!). DoudouLinux can run on computers with 128 MB memory and maybe less but you need that your video card embeds its own memory. This prevents the system from reserving video memory from the PC's RAM. It seems that the DoudouLinux system alone uses around 70-80 MB of memory (not sure, this is quite vague memories). Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
