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[Chris Jones]

Peter Cannon wrote:

>On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 16:25, The wise and knowledgeable Edward Croft 
>proclaimed:
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>>Caloy, when you boot the system there is usually a prompt to get into
>>the Bios. Some use Del, others F2, or some other key. You need to hit
>>that key as the system boots. Once in the bios, do not change anything.
>>You want to look at how much memory it says you have. My guess is 64mb
>>given that you said it had 98 on it. My guess is that the Hard Drive is
>>what is 5gb. If this is the case, you may need to search the web to find
>>memory for that system. Or you could run it without X. (Run level 3)
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>I managed to get White Box Linux (a derivative of Red Hat) to run in graphical 
>mode (not for long mind) on a Digital HiNote P133, 40MB 3GB partition no 
>CDROM.
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>Why not have a look at Slackware or Peanut Linux they will be less demanding.
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>Not that I'm trying to put you off FC.
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Thanks for that gem, Pete. I have an ancient (exhorbitantly expensive) 
Gateway2000 laptop that has a P133 chip and 40Mb of RAM and a 2Gb HDD. 
If I can find the time, I might just put one of those on it - just to 
see if it the laptop can handle it; otherwise, it will have to go, I am 
afraid

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