On 26/2/24 15:04, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
Hi,
On 26/2/24 1:41 pm, Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:20:58PM +1100, luv-main wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in
Europe mainly to get photos off his camera SD card and
>> into a suitably sized ext, HDD,
>>
>> When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I have the
BIOS set for boot from USB stick.
>>
>> Any tips for a functional and speedy OS to load, please?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Andrew Greig
>>
> I always use Knoppix https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Hmmm, Knoppix looks pretty dead..... I thought it was dead some time ago.
The lack of RAM and the machine being quite old, I don't know; if
Knoppix does the job, then sure, but I think you might
want something newer if it doesn't need more resources.
What are the other hardware specs? Which CPU / architecture? What RAM
does it take, can it get an upgrade of the RAM if
possible at a reasonable cost?
Cheers
A.
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Thanks Andrew,
The specs are here:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Ideapad-S10e.15950.0.html
But for some reason mine has 2Gb of Ram and 160Gb hard-drive. Initially
I was using it to plan hikes using a piece of software from a German
dev, Later he sold it nd it became proprietary software.
[email protected] but when I was having trouble with it he
discovered that latitudes in the Southern hemisphere are represented by
negative values. Pos for the North , of course. Any way he optimised the
program so that this small machine would handle a 4GB scan and zoom in
and out at high speed.
Could create a route and then copy it to a Garmin ETrex, brilliant,
Cheers
Andrew
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