Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 21:41:42 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Loaded linux mandrake the hard way
>Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:43:28 -0800 >From: Skip Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Loaded linux mandrake the hard way > > > > >Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:30:12 -0600 > > >From: "Phillip Ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Loaded linux mandrake the hard way > > > ><snip> > > >hard drive.. Is something wrong?? Do I need 32meg to run linux well?? I > > >just want an mp3 player and gps > > > > > > > See my earlier reply - you need 32M if you have any chance of M8.1 >working > > well, it's a memory hog, particularly with kde2.2. It will still be slow >- I > > did the timings as a comparison some weeks ago but I don't have them >with > > me, but iirc around thre and a half minutes from power to kde desktop >under > > M8.1. I'd recommend the upgrade anyway. > > > You might be happier using a minimalist window manager, such as >Blackbox, > (http://blackbox.alug.org/) They require much less memory and don't take > up valuable screen real-estate with a lot of clutter. > > Indeed. I use Icewm which is pretty light, *very* fast, and easy to theme if such is your desire. In my tests it came out as five times faster to load (login to desktop) as kde1.1, ten times as fast as kde2.2. My common applications loaded more quickly as well, though I don't have the details with me. As promised earlier - my fdisk results: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1014 8144923+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 1015 1019 40162+ 83 Linux /boot /dev/hda3 1029 1063 281137+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1064 2432 10996492+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1064 1318 2048256 83 Linux / /dev/hda6 1319 2165 6803496 83 Linux /home /dev/hda7 2166 2432 2144646 83 Linux /usr The type is 83, but is actually reiserfs for the last three entries. I don't think reiserfs had a filetype at the time - it was still experimental when Mandrake released M7.1 with it. The really annoying thing though is that the text install doesn't allow setting up the reiser system - you have to use the graphical install for that, and you need more memory than is available on the lib :( Neil _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
