Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
. There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary to give full performance. As a comparison, 32MB is barely enough to run Windows 98, and Mandrake 9.0 is not the equivalent of Win98, it's more like XP (except that it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Thread Rodolfo Lima
Well, the problem then seems to be low RAM. I'll try to buy some more and see what happens. I really thought that Linux+KDE wasn't so heavy, memory demanding. But as someone said, for low-end machines, text mode is the solution, and KDE equals to XP resource-wise. But the installation really need

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Thread Jan Wilson
* Rodolfo Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030226 08:24]: But the installation really need to last 4 hours? In text mode? It certainly doesn't do a mere copy from cd, maybe compile some things, I think. OK, try installing Win XP on a blank disk. Now install Office XP. Now imagine you have several CD's

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:46 am, Jan Wilson wrote: * Rodolfo Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030226 08:24]: But the installation really need to last 4 hours? In text mode? It certainly doesn't do a mere copy from cd, maybe compile some things, I think. OK, try installing Win XP on a blank

[newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread Rodolfo Lima
Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lanThe problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread robin
Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:02 pm, Rodolfo Lima wrote: What might be happening? The computer has insufficient horsepower to do what you are trying to do. Although I have dual Pentium Pro 200MHz with 160MB RAM that makes a great home server,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:28, robin wrote: Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:02 pm, Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu

RE: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread Marlo Montanaro
Of Rodolfo LimaSent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200 Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lanThe problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 23:02, Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-25 Thread David E. Fox
I have a Pentium 200 MMX with 64 MB of RAM. My installation took just about 1 hour- 4 times better than yours with only twice the RAM. But I'm not I used to run a Pentium 100 with (at first) 16 megs of RAM, but that was back in 1996. Resource demands were less then. As I recall, Afterstep