Re: Debian on ancient machines

[mockingbird@ihug.co.nz (Chris Bannister)]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:19:27PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> My friend has a 128MB RAM/10GB HDD computer that runs fine with Fluxbox, XDM, and his wireless card (NIC).

Luxury!!.

# less /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200

# less /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        46048 kB
MemFree:          2020 kB
Buffers:          8060 kB
Cached:          15892 kB
SwapCached:       4816 kB
Active:          28048 kB
Inactive:         6936 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:        46048 kB
LowFree:          2020 kB
SwapTotal:       62488 kB
SwapFree:        51628 kB
Dirty:              84 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          15592 kB
Slab:             6300 kB
CommitLimit:     85512 kB
Committed_AS:    35760 kB
PageTables:        388 kB
VmallocTotal:  1253072 kB
VmallocUsed:      2512 kB
VmallocChunk:  1250308 kB

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4             1.2G  1.1G   87M  93% /


-- 
Chris.
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Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to 
etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
etch goes stable.