Hello, On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 00:44 +0100, Bernard wrote: > > I would like to install wireless facilities on my old Thinkpad. It has > a 300 Mhz processor, 128 MB of RAM, and 4.1 GB of space on hard disk. > It used to run on RedHat 7.2, which stayed there for about six years > without any problem. Since I have been unable to get wireless working > on it using pcmcia IBM 'EtherJet' card and a router in client mode > 'FON2200' (the so called Fonera), I installed Debian Sarge instead of > RedHat 7.2.
Keep in mind that Debian Sarge was discontinued since March 2008 [1]. >From your point of view, this mainly means that it has no security update. Debian Sarge[2a], Etch[2b] and Lenny[2c] seems to have the same RAM requirements. You might want to install XFCE desktop rather that the default desktop (gnome) as explained in [2c]. Franklin [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080229 [2a] http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch03s04.html [2b] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/ch03s04.html [2c] http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch03s04.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
