Cheers! It was slow and it hurt...sounds like my attempts to for Gentoo on a 350. (I ended up Debian)
How long did it actually take? You were definately clock cycle impaired...(and I thought all of my linux play boxes were scraping bottom!) Fluxbox kicks it... I like the wigetry of K but it truly bogs down an older system On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:11:23 -0500, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was slow and it hurt, but I just finished putting Sarge on a P1 133MHz > machine. It worked with 64MB of RAM and the system took about 2.5 Gigs of > drive space. Included were KDE 3.2, Open Office and other goodies. X set > up painlessly and the Gnome Display Manager was used. A 15 meg boot > partiton solved BIOS boot problems for the 80 gig hard drive. Grub was set > up with a rescue boot option that proved handy when the victim's control > character filled password goofed GDM. > > I was surprised by how well the system ran. It boots in reasonable time and > KDE is usable. Fluxbox ran faster, of course. The victim said that the > machine boots and runs faster than their virused up Windows 98 on similar or > better hardware. Such new software running on such old hardware was very > impressive. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
