on my laptop, I had a swap partition form a previous GNU/Linux distro (Mandrake 7.2) but somehow the gNewSense installer was reading off the CD like crazy which made me think that he could not use it. I thought the reason was that the swap was not mounted during the install process to allow the installer - probably a GUI front end for fdisk - to access and reformat the drive. Either way - I tried installing gNewSense three times, but it always ended up freezing and reading like crazy from the CD (with a crrr crrrr crrrrrr sound). Kanotix installed from the first time. So I figured that 128RAM was really too little and that the swap partition could not be used during the install. But your experience indicates otherwise and I wonder what I did wrong...
Did you activate the swap manually (with a 'swapon' command for example) while already in the installer? On 2/12/07, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 > > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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