Thomas Olenio wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am going to re-install Slackware on my Zenith Z-NOTE,
> 425Ln laptop PC, <snip>
>
> /dev/hda1 Primary Linux 115.95 (mb)
>
> When I run 'free' I am told;
> total used free shared buffers cached
> mem 6576 6364 212 1616 4276 956
> -/+ buffers: 1132 5444
> swap 0 0 0<snip>
It looks like you have 8 megabytes of RAM and 120 megabytes of hard disk space.
You should create a swap file for some swap space.
IMHO, you don't have enough RAM or hard disk space to run 'X'.
Slackware-3.6 (kernel 2.0.35) is installable from floppies.
I suggest the A and AP (? and F ?) series for installation.
This is 14 diskettes. Plus, you'll need a boot & root diskette.
I have 'built' a slackware-3.5 & IP-Masquerade into an 80 megabyte "/" filesystem,
however, I have 64 megabytes of RAM and 40 megabytes of swap. So far,
~ 66 days, it has used 220k of swap. :-|
This included the kernel source and a kernel build. (A, AP, D, K & N series)
If you can find a suitable kernel to boot from, you can save ~30 megabytes of
space by leaving out the D & K series. It would take 'a long time' to build
a kernel with only 8 megabytes of RAM.
HTH, Chuck
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Researching GELM
