Re: another newbie/debian on older laptop

1999-10-20 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Suggestions to both sunshine_wonder and Matthew Guenther: > > I have run Debian on a Compaq Aero (ancient machine) with 16 meg Ram and > a 500 meg hard drive and a 486sx 16MHz processor for years now. > > For installation my favourite option is plip + floppies. Much f

Re: another newbie/debian on older laptop

1999-10-20 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Suggestions to both sunshine_wonder and Matthew Guenther: > > I have run Debian on a Compaq Aero (ancient machine) with 16 meg Ram and > a 500 meg hard drive and a 486sx 16MHz processor for years now. > > For installation my favourite option is plip + floppies. Much f

Re: another newbie/debian on older laptop

1999-10-19 Thread mattwell
what tools you intend to use. Matt -- sunshine_wonder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/18/99 04:52:00 PM To: laptop group cc: Subject: another newbie Hi. I've been reading about Linux for a while now and was thinking about putting it on my ancient laptop. It's not my main pc, but

Re: another newbie/debian on older laptop

1999-10-19 Thread mattwell
what tools you intend to use. Matt -- sunshine_wonder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/18/99 04:52:00 PM To: laptop group cc: Subject: another newbie Hi. I've been reading about Linux for a while now and was thinking about putting it on my ancient laptop. It's not my main pc, but

Re: another newbie

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Blu on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:22:25PM -0300: > sunshine_wonder wrote: > > > > > It's not hard to find big chunky distributions on CD-ROM but how do I > > shoehorn Linux on to my laptop? Is a 600 meg hard drive big enough for > > the OS, a word processor, and a game or two? Will it run mor

Re: another newbie

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Blu on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:22:25PM -0300: > sunshine_wonder wrote: > > > > > It's not hard to find big chunky distributions on CD-ROM but how do I > > shoehorn Linux on to my laptop? Is a 600 meg hard drive big enough for > > the OS, a word processor, and a game or two? Will it run mor

Re: another newbie

1999-10-19 Thread Blu
sunshine_wonder wrote: > > It's not hard to find big chunky distributions on CD-ROM but how do I > shoehorn Linux on to my laptop? Is a 600 meg hard drive big enough for > the OS, a word processor, and a game or two? Will it run more slowly > with Linux than it does with Dos 6.22? Is there some ki

Re: another newbie

1999-10-19 Thread Blu
sunshine_wonder wrote: > > It's not hard to find big chunky distributions on CD-ROM but how do I > shoehorn Linux on to my laptop? Is a 600 meg hard drive big enough for > the OS, a word processor, and a game or two? Will it run more slowly > with Linux than it does with Dos 6.22? Is there some ki

another newbie

1999-10-18 Thread sunshine_wonder
Hi. I've been reading about Linux for a while now and was thinking about putting it on my ancient laptop. It's not my main pc, but it's a good traveler and I'd like to get a few more miles out of it. It's a Compaq Lite Lte 20, a 386sx 20mhz with 10 megs of ram, and a 600 meg hard drive. I'm runnin

another newbie

1999-10-18 Thread sunshine_wonder
Hi. I've been reading about Linux for a while now and was thinking about putting it on my ancient laptop. It's not my main pc, but it's a good traveler and I'd like to get a few more miles out of it. It's a Compaq Lite Lte 20, a 386sx 20mhz with 10 megs of ram, and a 600 meg hard drive. I'm runnin