Dear Debian folks,
I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz ancient PC.
I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it.
This was a slow process and involved a certain amount of farting around in
the installation but in the end it worked.
On a machine like this gnome is a non-starter. It is too slow.
So I bunged icewm on instead and it works OK speed wise.
It feels right.
But I have some ignorances that are spoiling my fun a bit.
One thing is that I can't seem to find any icon for the floppy like there is
in gnome.
What do you do here? Do you open a terminal window put the floppy in and
use the mount command to read it?
What about a CD?
Another problem I have is that Openoffice takes ages to load and I think the
machine is struggling a bit with it.
There doesn't seem to be any abiword or whatever it is in the default icewm
installation. Presumably if I install abiword using apt then it will be
automatically incorporated into the icon set up and I will be able to fire
it up from the window manager....
It's shame that Openoffice 1.1 is so slow because I like what it does....
A smaller spreadsheet software would also be useful.
I ended up using the openoffice print manager or whatever it is to configure
the printer.
I trust this is what you are supposed to do. It didn't have as many drivers
as the gnome beastie and so I am not sure if it will drive the Epson C86
smelly inkjet printer I use.
I will do what I can with it.
Suggestions on how to get this system to work about as well as can be
expected given the old hardwre would be appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill