On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 23:33 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Carl, > > > First for such an old laptop if you want Suse be sure to have at least > > 20 gig free for a min install. If you cant get more than 256 mb on it, > > I have a full set of 9.2 with an update disk. Support will die with the > > advent of 10.2. I will attempt 10.0 when I get some more memory for > > this PII 350Mhz. > > I assume you mean 20 meg and not 20 gig...? Actually I think > something like 1 gigabyte can already give you a few hundred > of the better programs :-). An install with 20 mb harddisk > space will be very minimal - once I tried to install on a PC > with ca 250 mb harddisk, a medium 486 PC, but that was really > basic and not very useful. One thing which is really useful > for old computers is using old Linux versions. For example > SuSE 6.4 - if you can live with a 2.2 kernel without USB > support and stuff. Alternatively, there are many lesser known > Linux distros around which are especially made for small > computers with small harddisks and little RAM, but which are > modern distros. > No for Suse I ment 20 gig /boot 64mb / 7-10gig /swap 128mb min /home the rest of the 20 gig.
> I think the reason why there were no further mails in this > thread this week is that, not wanting to get one of those > few DOS compatible wifi cards second hand, and not wanting My freedos mail stopped on Mon 11-27 and restarted today. BTW I am told FreeDOS is the basis of dosemu for linux. So keep coding there is life in the old dog yet. CWSIV ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
