Re: 486 laptop...

From: A. F. Cano (afc_at_shibaya.lonestar.org)
Date: 03/23/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:15:09 -0500
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    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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