Re: another newbie/debian on older laptop
mattwell@us.ibm.com writes:
> Suggestions to both sunshine_wonder and Matthew Guenther:
>
> I have run Debian on a Compaq Aero (ancient machine) with 16 meg Ram and
> a 500 meg hard drive and a 486sx 16MHz processor for years now.
>
> For installation my favourite option is plip + floppies. Much faster than the
> serial
> port and usually easier to setup initially than pcmcia. I have heard the
Hmm, worked for me like a charme. Boot from CD, stick in the card and
configure the network. :)
> ocasional
> report of someone not being able to get plip working but it has always worked
> for me.
For plip to work sometimes you need to set the io and irq for
the parport, without it you eigther get no connection or
timeouts. With the settings it works fine. Maybe thats something to
mention in the plip doku.
>
> For allowing the install of lots of software I use e2compr. It has been
> reliable enough for me and let me put everything I needed on the mahcine.
>
> e2compr: http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr
>
> Don't compress executables or library binaries unless they really don't get
> used very often. I was able to compress most of the xemacs/emacs directories
> and /usr/src (compiles take somewhat longer). I have used double and zlib (?)
> before with some sucess but e2compr has worked much better for me.
I plan to use that for the demo-fs, but at the moment booting of a
ramdisk and the loopback doesn´t work, because losetup is broken. But
thanks for the URL. :) Good to know that its stable.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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