UPDATE - Was Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-05 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB (which I

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scarletdown wrote: I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:52:48PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies. That sounds like a good idea. So, what do I need to do my own custom kernel? Also, where can I

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies. That sounds like a good idea.

Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-02 Thread Scarletdown
I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB (which I believe is the most she can take), and the Portege has