Hi, Having just (more or less) installed Debian 3 on to a Toshiba 205CDS I thought my experience might throw some light on your problems. My machine Pentium90 . Added memory module to give 40Mb total. Original 800Mb drive upgraded to a fairly new IBM 5Gb. Xircom 56k pcmca modem and D-Link DFE650 10/100M pcmcia NIC.
I started installing from the July APC mag cover discs, but found that while the kernel installed from the CD successfully, the moment I started adding packages with either tasksel or dselect things started going haywire, so I went back to square 1; installed the kernel and then loaded all the packages into apt using the ftp.nz.debian.org and http://security.debian.org sites. I have it running successfully with kde, gFTP, vnc, apache, mysql and php running (up to a point). So the speed and available RAM on your system should not be a problem. Best wishes Trevor de Stigter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Psycho old laptop Re: Household allocation of PCs Re: New misbehaviour of cups > Hi there, > > CF wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 20:28, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > > >>I've tried Debian 3.0, Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1, and all three distros get > >>into difficulty finding all the packages on the distro CD's to install > >>from...and the key ones they refuse to let me find are the lighter > >>weight desktop programs like ICEwm, fvwm etc...which I need to get a > >>workable X system going...KDE or Gnome kill it dead... > > > > Have you got a NIC for it? Most if not all of my linux installs are > > network ones - so the packages are downloaded as needed from the net. > > I'll grab a 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet adaptor so I can try using my > Terminator 1100 to do the install onto the laptop... > > Its really weird when I try running the installation under Mandrake. > I get to the point of manually selecting packages, and all the stuff > I want is not listed for selection... > > With Debian all the packages are listed using dselect, but when I try > to select one it cannot select all the dependencies as well... > > I guess its (lack of) memory related, so I will upgrade to 128MB when I > get some money together... > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > > >
