Re: Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
>My Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop (Pentium II 364 MHz, 192 Mb RAM) is running
>out of hard drive space. The machine is running Fedora Core 2. It is
>still using the original 6 Gb hard drive, and has 491 Mb of free space
>left. I'd love a new machine, but I'm loathe to spend the money right
>now, especially as one of my kids will soon need to gear up for
>university. I figure I can just install a bigger hard drive on the
>machine.
>
>I am thinking of simply popping in the new hard drive and then
>installing Fedora Core 3 to it. Does that sound like a good option -- or
>will Core 3 grind to a halt? It doesn't have much memory. But the new
>drive will have faster rotational speed plus an 8 Mb buffer, so that
>might help a little bit. Or should I stick with Fedora Core 2, which I
>already know runs slowly, but it does run. I have a Buffalo wireless PC
>card that I can use with this baby for my internet connection.
>
>
I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3
if you put in a new disk.
192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose.
Also I didn't notice FC-3 was any slower than FC-2;
Has someone said it is?
I'm running FC-3 now on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook with 128MB RAM.
(It used to have 256MB, but the extra memory has failed.)
This has a Crusoe 660MHz processor.
I'm also running FC-3 on a 300MHz Pentium II desktop with 128MB RAM.
I had no problem installing FC-3, but I must admit X is rather slow.
Both machines have plenty of disk-space.
(I installed a 60GB drive in my Picturebook.)
Thanks Timothy. I'll order the new drive soon. I suppose if I just
exchange the drives and install Fedora Core 3 from DVD that will save me
a lot of bother connecting them to another computer first using 2
special adapters and then copying manually partitioning and formatting
the new drive and copying the contents of the old drive to the new one.
Bob