Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:34:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Re: "State of the Art" on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!)
Does anyone know how to remove yourself from this mailing list please? Sorry to bother you all, but this is driving me nuts!!! Cheers guys! --- Avi Cohen Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:47:53 +0100 > From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LIB] Re: "State of the Art" on OS for > the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) > > Hi, > > I also have a Mandrake 9.2 running. I think I had > the CD images ripped > to the DOS image. (Image, first installed WIN98 to > get a program to rip > the ISO images or ftp them and then use > the floppy to boot :-) > > Didn't try the network option then. > > I also tried 10.0 but that didn't work out. Indeed > too heavy. > > Another option I tried was Gentoo (3th stage) using > a second computer to > bootstrap and to compile the kernel. Took me some > rebuilds before I had > a working kernel (wrong processor selected...) > Forgot how I did it but that worked also after a > while. > > The mandrake 9.2 did very well. And after a lot of > hard work I even got > the Margi DVD-to-Go with Zoomed Video working! Took > me some kernel > changes in the PCMCIA driver, sound driver and a lot > of hacking into the > Neomagic driver. I even IDA pro-ed the windows > driver to have it reveal > it's dark secret about the Zoomed Video interface. > > In one of these days/weeks/months I might add the > gory details here: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics In the meantime it > contains the two sides of > the Libretto motherboard scanned in using my flatbed > scanner and a > collection of the Windows 2000 and XP drivers. > > Avi. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: T. Ribbrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 14:05 > > To: Libretto > > Subject: [LIB] Re: "State of the Art" on OS for > the > > 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) > > > > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:51:42 +0100 > > From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: "State of the Art" on OS for the > 100CT/64MB RAM > > (and the 96MB thing!) > > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:50:19AM -0700, Lines, > Nick wrote: > > > Thanks for all the input - keep 'em coming if > anyone else > > has any tips! > > > > Ok, even if I'm late to the party... ;-) > > > > I had Mandrake Linux 9.1 running on my 100CT > (later 110CT), > > on a 20GB drive. That combo worked *very* nicely > and that > > Linux version was easy to install, as Mandrake at > the time > > had PCMCIA network drivers in the installer, > hence, you just > > needed to boot from one floppy (with BIOS > support), then > > switch to network install. Obviously, this > requires a network > > card and ideally a second machine that can be used > as server > > (though an internet connection might do). > > > > I later switched to Mandrake 10.0 which was a > nuissance - > > much, much slower (most likely too much going on > in the > > default install) and more difficult to install > (the PCMCIA > > networks drivers now reside on a second floppy, > which cannot > > be read due to Linux not supporting the Libby's > floppy - but > > you can install from a PCMCIA SCSI adapter and a > SCSI CD-ROM > > drive instead, if you happen to own both...). This > was on a > > 60GB drive. > > > > Not impressed, I moved on to SuSE Linux 10.0 - for > this, I > > had to install the 60GB drive in another machine, > as I could > > not figure out a way to install otherwise. I still > have this > > combo running (mainly as MP3/OGG Vorbis player in > our living > > room), but it's too slow to be comfortably used as > web > > browsing machine (also, the small screen doesn't > help - most > > websites basically *require* >= 1024x768 these > days, alas). > > I've also used it for some simple web development > in this > > configuration (Apache installed, with some > PHP/CMS). To safe > > memory, I'm running Window Maker and the odd xterm > - I would > > not recommend even thinking about any of the "big" > desktop > > environments a la KDE or Gnome. > > If I just want to check some mail, I don't even > bother > > starting up X - just the command line is > sufficient and very > > fast. Even browsing web sites works to some extend > on the > > command line (links, w3m), though less so than a > couple of years ago. > > SuSE 10.0 is still slow, though less so than MDK > 10.0 - the > > biggest annoyance being yast2 (SuSE's > configuration tool), > > which uses oodles of memory and hence runs as > molasses on the Libby. > > > > I'm still wondering whether I'll try OpenBSD on > that box one > > day - I'd still have to put the drive into another > machine to > > install, but the system as such is so nice and > lean that it > > might well be worth the effort - I still have the > 20GB > > drive... ;-) Or I might switch back to an older > Linux version > > or something like DamnSmallLinux. > > > > I never even considered running Windows on the > Libby - the > > whole user experience of a Windows desktop is so > annoyingly > > cumbersome to me that it drives me insane within a > very short > > period of time. Bad enough that I have to use it > at work... :-} > > > > Cheerio, > > > > Thomas > > -- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------- > > Thomas Ribbrock > http://www.ribbrock.org > > "You have to live on the edge of reality - to > make your > > dreams come true!" > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
