Re: [Sheflug] Newbie - H/W recommendations please

[Ruth Gunstone <nospam [at] bolsterstone.demon.co.uk>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105122146040.32662-100000 [at] erdos.shef.ac.uk>
          Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski [at] ragingbull.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> > and even suse, but have had no luck in getting a working installation. I'm
> > presuming that my aging PC just isn't up to the job (it's an old Viglen
> > P100). . . . or I'm just not getting something right! 
> 
> I'm writing this message from a P-75 (Viglen too), happily running
> SuSE-7.0 with a 2.4.x kernel. Just need a bit more memory than those
> 'old' PC usually have - I've got 48M and that's about ok for me (64M would
> do better though:-))
[snip]

The PC I tried has 64M and a 2G HD. The SuSe installation /appeared/ to go
o.k., but it couldn't 'find' the mouse (it's serial only on this machine).
Being totally unfamiliar with Linux, I couldn't face the steep CLI learning
curve, so abandoned the project!

A later attempt with Mandrake failed to even run the setup program, and
CorelLinux loaded completely but fell over every time I tried GIMP :-(

If nothing else...it shows I'm determined!


TTFN!

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Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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