Re: 486 laptop...
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:42:11AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I think plenty of people would love a simple laptop that just works -- I
> agree a real lightweight wm with a simple editer like Nedit, a
> lightweight browser and email client, what more could you really need?
As a data point, I have just resurrected an old Compaq LTE 5300 (P133,
80M ram, no cd, flakey floppy drive, 1.3G HD). Because the floppy
was intermittent, I removed the HD and installed sarge on another
laptop with a bootable CD and a pcmcia ethernet card. To make it fit I
selected only the workstation task and also the selection of individual
tasks, under which I removed gdm and gnome (I wanted kde). That must
have removed enough packages to allow the installation to barely fit.
After the *.deb files were deleted, the disk is now 72% full.
Surprisingly, gdm is still there and the gnome desktop is the only
one apparently available, and it works. Of course, when I moved
the HD back into the LTE, I had to manually reconfigure pcmcia
and X (different chips), but now it works. I will eventually fine
tune the packages with aptitude and see if I can get kde into that
small HD. BTW, this installation was with the 2.6 kernel. Sound
still needs work as does acpi.
> ...
A.
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