disto for laptop

[Mark Myers]

I have tried Knoppix. It didn't run very well on my laptop when I tried
it because I had XP on it and since the partition was NTFS, it didn't
have anywhere to use a swap partition. I believe Knoppix will use a FAT
partition for swap if there is not a native Linux partition present.
I did get Mandrake 9.1 RC1 installed on it and it seems to be running
fine. I think I'll try the Knoppix CD when I get home. It should see the
swap space on the laptop and use it.
Thanks for your help.
Mark


On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:48, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I agree on the apt-get. I also like the Internet install for Debian. I was 
> able to install Debian on an older 486 laptop using 3 diskettes and an 
> Internet connection with very little fuss. Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, and the 
> lot would not install because the processor was not a Pentium and they 
> needed a minimum of ~100 MB of RAM to install. *BSD also installed and ran 
> very well.
> 
> Have you tried Knoppix? I used it off the CD to backup a Win2K partition 
> (thanks to a lot of helpful hints from the list!) and it so far works very 
> well. I may try t install it on the hard drive. Everything is integrated 
> (Open Office, KDE, Knqueror etc), it is small (runs off a 700MB CDROM) and 
> is fast. You may find you like it for your Pentium.
> 
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
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> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, March 01, 2003 1:12 PM
> To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject:	RE: disto for laptop
> 
> Thanks, Mark. But the curious thing is, Lindows is based on Debian. Maybe 
> I'll
> try Lindows 3.1 beta. The thing I REALLY like about Debian is apt-get. 
> Lindows
> did not detect my soundcard (though it did detect my SMC PCMCIA card (no 
> other
> distro sets it up properly)). So I did an apt-get on "sndconfig." Ran 
> sndconfig
> and away I went! It was kinda cool.
> Other than the speed issue, I personally think Lindows is ideal for a 
> laptop.
> Mark M.
> 
> Quoting Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>:
> 
> > Mark,
> >
> > I ran into the same problems with my old Inspiron 3000 (233 MHz Pentium
> > MMX, 148 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive). I had the same issue with Redhat 7.3,
> > but I had to rebuild the kernel since it would not recognize my pcmcia
> > cards. When I recompiled the kernel I tried to optimize it for Pentium 
> MMX,
> > but I noticed very little if any speed improvement. I then installed
> > Mandrake 8.2 and it is much faster, and Debian is even faster (even using 
> > X).
> >
> > In addition, Mandrake and Debian did a much better job with the NeoMagix
> > video chips - the fonts are much crisper and the whole screen "pops" just 
> > as it did with Windows. (I think Redhat 7.3 used an earlier version of
> > Xfree, so that was probably the problem with the display, and I never 
> tried
> > to install a new version and I am not sure what Redhat 8 uses).
> >
> > Mark Phillips
> > Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> > 480 945-0798
> > 480 945-9197 fax
> >
> > No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant free message,
> > however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
> > Sent:	Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:47 PM
> > To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject:	disto for laptop
> >
> > I have a Compaq Armada 7792DMT laptop w/96 MB RAM and 5 GB hard disk. It
> > has a
> > Pentium 266M processor (not PII). I have installed RedHat 8 & Lindows 3 
> on
> > it
> > (yes, I paid $99 for a Linux distro) but they both seem very slow. The 
> only
> > OSes that I get to run a a decent speed are Mandrake and Win2K.
> > I really want to use RedHat 8 on it. After install, if I recompile the
> > kernel,
> > will that help my speed issues?  I know it is never going to be blazing 
> in
> > X,
> > but it really shouldn't take 15 seconds to get the reply window up when
> > replying to an e-mail in Evolution.
> > TKIA.
> >
> > Mark Myers
> >
> >
> >
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