Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto usage?
they all will install on a 386 as long as you have at least 128meg of ram. --- Jim Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:37:44 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jim Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto usage? > > Have you tried installing a newer Red Hat or Fedora > using the slinky installer > (http://www.rule-project.org/)? Haven't tried it > myself yet but supposedly the newer distros may RUN > on > older hardware, they just won't INSTALL. (I > currently > have Red Hat 7.3 on my 64MB Lib110 dual-booting with > Win98SE; soon I will be trying triple-boot with > Win2k/Win98SE/newer Linux.) > > Jim > ==================================================== > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:57:58 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto usage? > > hi, > > good question - and one that I'll hijack for a > related > question ;-) > > I'd use my libretto for a whole lot more if I could > run > a modern Linux distro on it. being very very busy > (oh > yes) > means that I dont have too much time to 'play > around' > so > I was wondering if anyone on this list could > advise... > > Fedora Core 1/2/3 dont work on my Libretto 50CT > (32Mb, > 810Mb HD) > ..is this because of > > 1) lack of memory > 2) some obscure driver issue > 3) some obscure APM/ACPI wierdness > > as i said, I'd love to use the box more..and I'd > love > to have > time to diagnose this (when I say 'doesnt work' it > fails to boot > doing a standard installation method... you know, > the > sort of thing > you'd normally do) > > in the meantime, my little Lib is running a really > ancient RedHat 5.1 > with 2.0.40 kernel. its kinda geeky and quirky I > guess... but none > of the serious tools I need to use day to day will > work with such > an old libc and compile environment :-| > > I'd also like to try one of those 3G cards with > it..but no chance > without newer distro tools etc > > Alan > ==================================================== > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing > list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------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 > ************************************************************** > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
