I am running gNewSense on an old gateway PII with a 500 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. It works like a charm. The trick is to have a swap partition on the hard drive before you boot the live CD. The live CD will discover this swap partition and activate it, thus allowing the live CD, and subsequently the gNewSense distro, to use it.
On 2/12/07, andrei raevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is SUPER useful to me. I tried installing gNewSense to a laptop with a shitty DVD drive, 128RAM and a 450MHz proc and I simply could not make this work. I had to install Kanotix 2005-4 on it instead :-( Do you think that once installed with your hack gNewSense could run on a laptop with that kind of specs? (Ubuntu has 256MB RAM as a minima) On 2/12/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that gnewsense doesn't yet have a "alternate" or minimum > install for computers with low ram/graphics/cpu or that don't have the > right drivers. I had to do the alternate for my computer so here's how > you can do it do. > 1. Boot the live cd, hit the red button in the top right, select logout > 2. Go to icon in bottom left, select the "Gnome Failsafe Terminal" > session > 3. Login as username deltad (or root), no password > 4. type cd /home/deltad/Desktop in the terminal > 5. type cat ubiq* in the terminal > 6. You should see a line near the bottom that starts with gksudo > 7. Copy that line verbatim and hit enter > 8. The install will start. > 9. If for some reason it doesn't restart properly, wait 30 seconds > (for hd buffers+cache to clear), and then type halt OR go to the power > button on the top right and hit restart. You can also just pull the > plug (atleast on my HP laptop) > > I hope this helps some people because installing was a real bitch for > me. > Ringo Kamens > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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