Hi Daniel.
>> 2. Hard drive. Most laptops use standard EIDE drives...
>> My recommendation would be to upgrade your hard drive to at
>> least a 4.3G drive, larger if you can get them, and to
>> allocate partitions as follows:
> Well, that laptop is very old with a 10" plasma-screen, 16 or
> 256 grey-scales. I don't think that I will upgrade to such a
> huge hd only because I want to install Linux on it. I am using
> a 2.1 GB hd on my computer and that's enough. I still have 0.6
> GB free to fill.
> I only want to use it for fun and maybe for university and
> that's all.
> But thank you for suggesting your idea. :-)
I have to admit that I use mine to download files off the Internet,
having bought a PCMCIA network card for the beastie that lets me plug
it into the University's network (with their permission, I hasten to
add). As a result, a fair sized chunk of the 3.5G drive in it is used
for the files I'm downloading - including a 700M partition that
contains the latest RedHat installation set, with the various updates
already applied...
>> However, with only 4M of RAM, you'll probably need to enable swap
>> space before you can actually install Linux, as most distributions
>> need 6M of RAM to install without swap space...
> Someone suggested to use Debian's lowmem-distribution. You need
> only 2 MB RAM and 40 MB HD to install it.
I'd still put some swap space in myself, even if there's only 10M of
it configured. One system I've set up as a network bridge has 8M of
RAM and two 130M hard drives, and I've allocated 15M off each drive as
swap partitions, giving it a total of 38M of virtual memory...
Best wishes from Riley.
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