On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:04:55 Geordie Birch wrote: > i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space > is around 10MB! > > it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine.
What do you use it for? I have a similar machine (486sx25/4MB/250MB) that I'm thinking of using as a NAT/DHCP/DNS machine for LAN parties (as it's easy to carry). I've already put a minimal 70MB slink install on it, but I haven't really tried using it yet. dselect is a pain as it swaps like mad whenever the recommends/suggests/depends screen comes up. One thing to mention about the low memory slink install is that it doesn't always activate the swap partition correctly, so if you're seeing errors or a lack of disk activity during the install, switch to v22 and do a "swapon /dev/hda2" (or whatever you've set up your swap partition to be). Martin.