2009/9/18 Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It >> > > Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you > manage to install with only 64MB RAM? Note that I'm not sure how much RAM I have. I might have more, like 80MB, but not much more. I can verify tonight. I remember trying to access the web with it (with arora I think), it was possible but really slow, and forget about tabs. As for installation, it was a pain. Mainly because this laptop does not have a cd drive, and does not support booting from USB... When I got that machine, debian was on it with grub. So I copied the usb thumb drive image's kernel to the hd, added an entry for this kernel in grub, and booted the fs on the usb drive. Started installation, wiped-out debian and only have arch now. Put back arch's grub and its configuration, and "that's it"... ;) I also have Arch on a server at work: pentium IV 1.8GHz with 512MB of ram. It's working perfectly: serving svn and git repos. But that's a heavyweigth compared to the vaio! ;)
