[wellylug] Linux on laptops

[Ian Sterling]

Ya know, reading all these messages makes me really want to make it to
a wellylug meeting sometime... unfortunately, it'll be a while before
that can happen.  Yes, I've come to the decision that you guys are
pretty damned cool.  And that impression was the same that got me into
linux in the first place.

Yes, I sound like a worshipping noob, but whatever.  Geeks should
stick together. ;)

Just a thought...


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:30:33 +1200, Donald Gordon <don at dis.org.nz> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:38:23 +1200
> "Sam Cannell" <sam at plaz.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Potato?  Phfft .. noob. ;)
> 
> I did install bo once.  But at the time, I decided that I preferred Slackware.
> 
> \cite{Richard's comment on top-posters}
> 
> > I had a 486 laptop with 3.5 meg of ram.  The Potato installer needs more
> > ram than that, so I had to use the lowmem bootdisk from Slink which let
> > you create a small partition, copy the installer floppy into it and run
> > it all from disk.  Once I'd done the slink install, I dist-upgraded to
> > Potato.
> 
> I once installed a very cut-down distro (kernel 1.0.9) that I can no
> longer remember the name of on my Toshiba T2000SXe (20Mhz 386SX, 2MB
> RAM).  It took a day to recompile the kernel, and I didn't try running
> X.  Slackware 3.5 wouldn't work at all on that machine; it seemed to die
> during the boot process despite a successful install, which I think
> required manual partitioning and swapon-ing before starting the
> installer
> 
> donald
> 
> 
> 
> 
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