On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 27 December 2003 22:14, Simon Kempf Danebod wrote: > > I have an old laptop > > TOSHIBA S320CDS / 3.8 GB HD Pentium 233 MHz MMX > > 32 MB EDO RAM > > 12,1" Dual Scan (800 x 600) > > build in 20x CD > > > > And I am trying to install MANDRAKE 9.2 > > I have the following problems > > 1) I have succeeded in installing MANDRAKE 9.2 but the computer > > crashed when it came to the configuration of the PCMCIA. I have > > tried to reinstall MANDRAKE but it crashed every time (crashed= > > the PC freezes up and only resetting works). I have tried text > > and rescue with the same result! 2) I have also tried to Fdisk > > my HD but to no avail. I am not able to Fdisk my HD because of > > the existence of a logical drive, but as I try to erase the > > logical drive it tells me that this do not exists. > > > > a) First I would like to be able to install MANDRAKE on my old > > laptop! Does anyone know how to without it crashing on the > > PCMICA configuration? > > > > b) How do I clean my HD completely and thereby releasing > > recourses? > > > > > > Sincerely yours > > Newbie Simon > > 32 MB RAM is not enough to install recent Mandrake distros. Is > there any chance of getting more RAM in? > > Anne
I agree completely. I have an old laptop (Thinkpad D380) from around 1998 with about the same configuration as Simon's. The last Mandrake distro I could get running was 8.0 and that was very slow indeed, at least when running KDE or Gnome. Got it running reasonably well on XFCE, Blackbox and IceWM. But : The PCMCIA worked fine. That included a modem dial-up and a Token Ring NIC. So I suggest a Mandrake 7.x for this thing, Simon. I guess you can still download 7.2 off some mirror. If not, I'll happily send you either Mandrake 7.1 or S.u.S.E 7.1 by Royal Mail ( judging from your address we are "close" neighbors. Just mail me off-list with an address.). Happy new year, everyone Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer **
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