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 (which I believe is the most she can take), and the > Portege has 24MB (can take up to 80MB). > > Both of them have successfully run Windows 98SE, so I figure they should > be able to run an ultra lightweight Debian desktop as well. For the > local desktop setup, which will just be mostly for maintenance purposes, > I am wanting to use LXDE as my desktop environment with the only > additional X-based apps installed being XMMS (these have decent on board > sound, so it would be a shame to let it go to waste), and Dillo, for > basic graphical web browsing. > > The primary use for these two laptops however, will be as thin clients > which would connect to another more fully featured Debian system via > XDMCP. For this, I will use GDM, since none of the other login managers > I have tried have any easy way to select remote login as a session. > > So anyway, I have run a test install, by first doing a minimal net > install of Stable on my "build box" and upgrading to Sid. After > transferring the drive from the build box to one of the laptops, I was > greeted with a kernel panic (same with when I tried it in the other > laptop). I don't recall what the actual full error messages were, but > apparently, neither 24MB or 40MB are sufficient to run a bare bones > console only implementation of Debian?
some info on the kernel panic would probably help a lot... > > I am guessing that these laptops can't use a 2.6 kernel, since I tried > Damn Small Linux (which uses 2.4) on them just to see if I could get a > working desktop, and was able to run Fluxbox and get on the Web with > Dillo. > > So now that I know that these laptops can boot up into functional Linux > systems, are there any suggestions I might try to get a proper "pure" > Debian setup on them? I don't want to go with DSL, because there are > just too many annoying little details to configure manually. Come to > think of it, I don't really want to go with any live distro. > > Suggestions? Pointers? Tips? you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies. A
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