Hi, I can give you a report from experience that Debian Sarge runs OK on a laptop with 2GB hard drive space and 32 M of Ram. I had just that sort of laptop (233 MHz Pentium), and I could use my laptop just fine for my (rather limited) requirements. I ran X with WindowMaker as the window manager, and installed software manually (no task selection during install) so that I wouldn't fill up the hard drive with anything I didn't need. All of my TeX-related applications ran OK, and I could use Firefox to browse fairly well after a somewhat lengthy initial load time. Of the ones I use, the only application which was really not happy was OpenOffice---it's memory footprint is just too big, and it had to swap out to the hard drive after almost every key press. Upping the memory to about 96 M made it a happy computer again, and OpenOffice ran well (after a long initial load time).
I'm sorry I can't address your more specific questions, since my answer to them was something like "I fiddled with them until it worked," and I don't remember any specific steps that I could convey here. However, Debian Sarge does have pretty good hardware detection. Scott On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:28:50AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. ?I am new to the list and trying to get new to linux. > For my first Linux install I've chosen a 1996 vintage Dell laptop with a 2GB HDD and > 32 MB of RAM. ?It doesn't have a CDROM drive, but I have a PCMCIA network card for > it. ?I found "Tiny Linux" on the web here: > http://tiny.seul.org/en/ and even a German site where someone installed it on the > same computer I am using, so I know it can be done. > -- Scott Thatcher Assistant Professor of Mathematics Truman State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
