On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:21, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, 12MB of RAM, > and a 10GB drive. It currently boots, but hits swap the instant I start the > PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a "ps axw" starts > grinding in single-user mode.
Hope you've got 192MB swap (16x RAM). Imagine how fast that, say, "apt-get update" is going to be. > Now, I don't expect wonders from this little machine. I just want it up > enough to use as a thin X terminal with no programs running locally. Maybe with an XFree 3.3.6 and twm. Maybe... In top, the SHR size of XFree 4.2.1 is 11MB, and the RES is 54MB. > I've already built a new 2.4.21 kernel without initrd and with everything > non-vital removed. Is the 2.2.x series significantly smaller? Yes. > Can I reduce the hard drive cache? RAM is *much* more valuable to me than > buffered reads and writes. That's automatic. > Is Debian even reasonable on this tiny box, or should I be looking at a > slimmer distribution? If so, any suggestions? Slink may be more appropriate. > Many thanks - I await running my 640x480x256-color Mozilla with bated > breath. That's a joke, right? How about Evo and Pan while you're at it? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
