Re: Toshiba CDT740
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:20:57PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD.
>
> Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum and
> partitioning so as to squeeze Debian on there. Alternately (if this is
> possible), I'd like to go DOS only + Debian.
>
> Has anyone done this, or any combination thereof, with this or a
> comparable machine? Should I just wait until I can afford a laptop
> with a larger HD?
>
I had a dual-install of Win98 and Debian on a 490CDT with 3.8GB. It worked
fine, but things started getting a little crowded after a while so I
eventually just bought a 20GB drive to save the hassles. Now I don't have
to worry abouyt space :)
/usr took up about 700MB as I recall, including X. Obviously, that depends
on what exactly it is you have installed. You could probably pare it down
to 400MB, say.
> Any problems I should be prepared for with this particular beast?
It might be easier to install Linux on the one partition rather than
splitting between /, /usr, /home etc. One problem I had was that /var kept
getting full, so I had to make symlinks to directories in other partitions
from time to time.
>
> NB I live in Brooklyn NY and work in Manhattan. Got home a couple of
> hours ago once the trains started opening back up. Many people I know
> either worked in the WTC or saw the towers fall. Send your good
> energies to this beleaguered island, if you can.
>
Eeek ;(
Good luck,
Drew
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