2009/9/18 Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote:
I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It
Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you manage to install with only 64MB RAM?
Note that I'm not sure how much RAM I have. I might have more, like 80MB, but not much more. I can verify tonight. I remember trying to access the web with it (with arora I think), it was possible but really slow, and forget about tabs. As for installation, it was a pain. Mainly because this laptop does not have a cd drive, and does not support booting from USB... When I got that machine, debian was on it with grub. So I copied the usb thumb drive image's kernel to the hd, added an entry for this kernel in grub, and booted the fs on the usb drive. Started installation, wiped-out debian and only have arch now. Put back arch's grub and its configuration, and "that's it"... ;) I also have Arch on a server at work: pentium IV 1.8GHz with 512MB of ram. It's working perfectly: serving svn and git repos. But that's a heavyweigth compared to the vaio! ;)