-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:38 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:32 am, Orkunt Sabuncu wrote: > > Last night I tried to install LM 8.1. But it is lik nightmare. > > Firstly I have to say that my system is really old and I know LM > > with KDE cannot live in a system with a conf. of 200MMX, 48MB Ram > > and 96MB Swap. But i found this statement is no good for linux > > because I am running Win2000 Pro in this system without any > > problems and really fast. I do not want to start a debate of win > > and linux on old machines but in the light of this fact (being able > > to use win2000 happily) not able to use linux makes me crazy. > > > > Ok, I start with last night. I formatted / and /home partitions > > using ReiserFs. > > I can't say from personal experience, but I have been told that any > journalling filesystem (ReiserFS, ext3, jfs, etc.) is a resource hog > and should only be used on machines that can handle the extra load. > Install Mandrake with the standard Linux ext2 filesystem, and you > will probably see an improvement.
I'd be interested to know whether Orkunt is running NTFS or FAT. Also, I'm stunned that win2k is "really fast" on such an old system. It's definitely NOT fast (just adequate) on my 128MB RAM PIII 550MHz box running NTFS. - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a | | little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor | | safety." | | Ben Franklin | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7vLNzjTz5dS9Us5wRAp9yAJ9RAb5pn2FivChFhpFjPp2RRgUYiwCfS8GH ADRnB89dOB/WA8JiTSv5C8A= =ocFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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