On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, J. D. Kent wrote:
> I have Slackware 3.1.0 on CD, which uses the 2.0.27 kernel. I currently
> have a bare minimum system running on my 386-20 notebook with a 60 mb
hd
> and 4 mb physical ram without any trouble. True, I had to create swap
> the first thing I did, but it's been fine.
>
> On a further note to this thread, I just purchased a 524 mb drive I
plan
> to transplant into the notebook. Naturally I will still have to create
a
> swap partition, but can this old girl really run X? I know it will be
> slow, but I'm patient. :)
For pity's sake, get her another 4mb of ram and she'll do a fair job
with X. She'll thrash the virtual a bit, but not unbearably. With only
4mb, things are going to page out that you really don't want to page
out.
>
> The machine has a monochrome VGA screen, but will put out 16 color VGA
> to an external monitor.
>
> Dave
>
>
Lawson
(I am writing this with pine on my mighty Packard-Hell 386 mono laptop.
My old VGA monitor doesn't like the heat and humidity, so the lcd is the
only screen I can read right now.)
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
___________________________________________________________________
Get the Internet just the way you want it.
Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
