Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
On Monday 08 Sep 2008 7:17:56 pm Karanbir Singh wrote: benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours.Could anyone suggest which distribution would be better for the above machine configuration. Thanks regards,Benedict the 128MB of RAM looks a bit limiting. Have you considered using a LTSP or a NX based setup ? yes - perfect setup for ltsp -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours.Could anyone suggest which distribution would be better for the above machine configuration. Thanks regards,Benedict Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
Try debian 3.1 Sarge.. It might work well. or els you can try DamnSmall Linux or puppy Linux. good luck On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:39 AM, benedict nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours.Could anyone suggest which distribution would be better for the above machine configuration. Thanks regards,Benedict Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- කුංචන මාතොට ආරච්චි Kunchana Mathota Arachchi My Blog: http://tuskytux.blogspot.com My Picasa : http://picasaweb.google.com/kunchana ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
Hello, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours. Your problem would be that you do not want to spend 2 hours on each machine. Learn to use some kind of tool like kickstart or fully-automated-install (FAI) to automate the installation of all the machines except the first one. Basically, the idea is that all the remaining machines are installed in a way like the first one and the installation of these remaining machines is automatic. You can further speed up the installation by making a local copy of all the packages available via the first machine. Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Basically, the idea is that all the remaining machines are installed in a way like the first one and the installation of these remaining machines is automatic. You can also make use of tools like Clonezilla, which can take a snapshot of your hard disk after you have installed and configured the first machine to meet your requirements. Then just copy this image using Clonezilla to all other harddisks. You might require to do minimum configuration changes and fixes if it doesn't work. This serves wonderfully well if all your computers share similar hardware spec. Also, if you have a backup of your master image safely, even if one of the machine conks off, you can easily get back the machine to starting point with minimal effort. -- --- With Regards, Parthan technofreak gpg 2FF01026 blog http://blog.technofreak.in ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:09 PM, benedict nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours.Could anyone suggest which distribution would be better for the above machine configuration. Thanks regards,Benedict I installed ubuntu 5.10 about year and half ago on 40 Intel Dot Pc's with 256MB RAM. They are still in good shape. This installation was somewhere in Pune... regards Vivek ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but installation taking nearly 2 hours.Could anyone suggest which distribution would be better for the above machine configuration. Thanks regards,Benedict the 128MB of RAM looks a bit limiting. Have you considered using a LTSP or a NX based setup ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !
Hello, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: the 128MB of RAM looks a bit limiting. Have you considered using a LTSP or a NX based setup ? How times have changed! In 1996 someone challenged me to run GNU/Linux with X, Emacs and TeX/Xdvi on a 486 with 4MB of RAM. The challenger lost! I know that is not the same as OO or FF. Both of these use memory in a way that makes one wonder why people had those nasty acronyms for Emacs (for example, Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping). Still, I suspect that a 128 MB RAM machine which is used only for FF and OO should work just fine as long as one does not enable all the whizz-bangs of the GNOME/KDE interface as well. Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
