[wellylug] Linux on laptops

[Enkidu]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:30:33 +1200, you 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
>
Hmm, the IBM 4341 that we had supported about 100 users on 2MB RAM.
Which was an upgrade from 1MB. 

It was maybe 12 - 15 feet long and the disks were in separate washing
machine sized cabinets. Not to mention printers, tape drives, network
processors.....

Cheers,

Cliff