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Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer - Forums Linux

Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer

Posted: 11 Feb 2006 03:24 PM PST

net wrote:
 

Exactly. Whatever the question, if it's about speed, this is probably
the answer. It was the answer on the old XT with 64K when you wondered
why WordPerfect was running slow, and it's still the answer.

But seriously, if you are having a speed problem and you can't or don't
have the time to investigate the deep causes, try a bit of extra RAM
before you spend big money on new processors, motherboards, and all the
rest.

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http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house
Ethics website: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house/goodness

linux 7.3

Posted: 11 Feb 2006 11:44 AM PST

Chris Cox wrote: 

It was the choice of many vendors perhaps 4 years ago. It takes time and
work to upgrade to the changes since then, such as a 2.6 kernel instead of
2.4, xorg instead of XFree86, and Apache 2.0 instead of 1.3. I can
understand its use in a legacy application such as the ones you describe, or
where stability with an old codebase is absolutely critical. But it's pretty
inexcusable to switch to it for any *new* applications.

Upgrading my processor

Posted: 11 Feb 2006 04:08 AM PST

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:08:42 -0800, piscesboy wrote:
 

Nothing faster than that is available. How's the heat output with it?
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Grub not able to boot XP

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 09:52 PM PST

Ninad Bapat wrote: 

Your Windows installation is probably *screwed*. This could be due to a full
load of nasty viruses, disk failures, or some other oddness. If the disk is
failing, you may need to replace it.

In your shoes, I'd boot from a Linux OS with NTFS drivers to make a copy of
all your data to an accessible FAT32 file system oor to an SMB server
somewhere else, then do a clean re-install of Windows.
 

You can *format* it, but that can screw up your Windows setup. I assume
you're using FAT32 so that you can see the Windows files from the Linux
side? And why not jsut re-install your Windows, with a backup made somewhere
accessible?

[Grub] 1 PCI IDE card = boot... 2 PCI IDE cards = no boot

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 02:15 PM PST

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:15:45 -0800, primealert wrote:
 
Which version of grub are you running. You could upgrade to 0.9.7 to rule
out some earlier bug. Also, grub's "geometry" command is helpful, but you
have to _boot_ far enough to get into the shell.

I have tried Promise IDE controllers, but I don't know anything about your
boards. Do you have any documentation for these boards? Also, disable
any builtin IDE controllers on your motherboard (using BIOS setup) until
you find out what's wrong.

<WAG>
This sounds like some conflict/deadlock which can sometimes be diagnosed
by trial- try switching the slots that the cards are plugged into. That
is, reverse the order of the cards on the motherboard. That would
probably reassign the interrupts for each card. From knoppix, you could
also get information with these commands:

# cat /proc/interrupts
# lspci
</WAG>

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Douglas Mayne

Installation problems with PCLinuxOS

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 07:47 AM PST

imotgm wrote: 

Hi, I'm using LiLo.

It looks like this:

boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
default="pclinuxos"
keytable=/boot/livecd.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB
label="pclinuxos"
root=/dev/sda8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img
append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht nomce psmouse.proto=imps splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only

other=/dev/sda1
label="WindowsXP"

Hope that makes some sense to you.

Cheers.

Tim

ghostscript installation; differences between root or normal user

Posted: 09 Feb 2006 09:30 AM PST

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:56:17 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

I had 9.1 installed on a machine once.

That seemed like a very long 5 minutes.
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internal DNS server cut me off from internet

Posted: 09 Feb 2006 08:08 AM PST

i need your maid id, if you wish, you can give,

migrating to RAID1

Posted: 09 Feb 2006 06:18 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup CristianM <it>: 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To quote any context and probably setting up initrd as required:

BTW
Please try below URL(s) before answering, most people aren't
using a browser here to read/write, this is usenet.

http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google

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Bypassing forced fsck during boot by pressing key?

Posted: 09 Feb 2006 03:58 AM PST

Moe Trin wrote: 

Got It!
On Debian it is the file
/etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh that does the job.

Thanks for the help!
Mark

Please Help;problem in installing Fedora Core

Posted: 09 Feb 2006 02:44 AM PST

Sorry abt the inconvenience.

I'm using Intel D865 board and intel pentium 4 processor
I have two 80 GB hard drives, one DVD rom, one cd rw and one DVD rw.

After few seconds when I press Enter button to install Fedora, start up
messages stop displaying followings,
================================
[<c0103c4a>] Common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[< >] mount_block_root+0x8d/0xf0
....
..
...
..
Ive tried to use text mode, but same messages arose.
I'm wondering whether this is a kernel crash or something else.
If it is a kernel crash,can I correct by setting BIOS?
Pls Help

Linux as print server with CUPS and HP Laserjet 4ML

Posted: 08 Feb 2006 06:10 PM PST

Hi,

Thanks to those who replied. I appear to have resolved the problem by
starting from scratch and using the KDE printing manager to set things
up. It installed hpijs to use with the 4ML.

Randy

KDE - Jpeg thumbnails no longer displayed after update

Posted: 08 Feb 2006 01:30 PM PST

Lenard wrote:
 

I know. The above repository had KDE 3.5 quite long before FC4. I am a new
user to Fedora, and I thought version updates to KDE were not issued just
as by Mandriva. That is how I have kde-redhat in the list of repos.

 

Thanks, I tried it, but didn't help.

I grepped the files in that folder for "thumbnail", and reinstalled all of
them. Nothing happened.

The whole thing is strange, as I have another machine with the same system,
and it works fine.


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Hieron

hda1 disappeared after disk merged. How the device label works?

Posted: 08 Feb 2006 05:52 AM PST

Thanks a lot. I have finally managed to fix partition order with fdisk.

I also installed GNU Parted, which replaces Partition Expert to do good
jobs for me. Thank you all bringing these great free tools. I would
suggest Parted over windows partition tools!!!

Repost: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

Posted: 07 Feb 2006 06:21 AM PST

JohnInSD At san DOT rr dot COM wrote:
 

Thanks John. The problem was that /proc/devices was not visible to lilo
because I was running lilo chrooted. So I did a mount -o bind /proc
/mnt/VG1-Root and suddenly it was visible. I then used mknod to switch
the major number of VG1-Root to 254 from 253 and it ran fine.

I can't find any documentation on it, but somewhere along the line
libdevmapper has stopped using major 253 and started using 254 for LVM2
logical volumes.

CC