The inestimable Larry Kollar wrote: >Had a look at LowendMac, the 3400 looks like a decently- >spec'ed machine. With an 800x600 screen, though, you will >find the Big Two desktop systems horribly cramped. I used >fvwm2 on a Pentium laptop with that size of screen & it >worked well.
Yeah, I bought the 3400 because it seemed like it would be a decent machine for the price I could afford. I am using KDE at the moment because it came with YDL, and it's better than twm. I don't have broadband at home, so acquiring s/w is a bit problematic. I'm going to grab iceWM and Blackbox soon, though. I'm used to these, so they're fine with me. The default "developer" install of YDL 2.3 failed. I did get through the base install, and have been installing RPM's manually. I just installed Opera, woo! >Personally, unless the hard drive were really small, I >would partition at least /, /home, and swap. Having >home in a separate partition lets you completely re- >install the OS if needed for whatever reason without >worrying about your data (it also makes backups easier). >If you define "smallish" as less than 1GB, then you >can probably get away with / and swap. I'd use a >journalling filesystem though, in case you put the >Powerbook to sleep & forget about it -- that's easy >to do with a laptop. Trust me. :-) I ended up with something like this: 500MB MacOS, 1000MB /, 400MB /home, 128MB swap. I have the RAM maxxed (144) so this is a bit short of swap, but I doubt that casual desktop use will swap that much. Would have been nice to get a 3 or 5 GB drive, but oh well. Funny you suggest ext3, because I've been thinking about that too, when it didn't come up as an option during formatting. How do I convert ext2 to ext3? Are there any drawbacks to doing so? Tim -- Tim Larson <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< OL 4-131-2 Info. Services - Internal Medicine Clinical Systems, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Democracy never lasts long, it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - Samuel Adams I apologize for the irregular wrapping and quoting. I use MS Outlook. -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
