RE: Low memory performance question

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
The question is - Is Debian going to run worth a d**n on this thing? The primary use will be for learning C and mucking about with shell programming. I won't be loading much more then the base system, gcc, g++, and vi. It should be fine *if* you won't do anything heavy in C. gcc is

Low memory performance question

1998-11-27 Thread D Deasy
Hello all - I'm trying to install Debian 2.0.2 on a Toshiba 386 laptop, with 4M of memory and a 120M hard drive. I RT the fine Manual and have my stack of floppies ready. Used lowmem.bin, did the partition thing (92M for me, 20M for swap, 6M for Minix), booted with the resc1440.bin disk and