Subject: RE: Suggestions for installing the most recent version of NetBSD on a 486 based laptop
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/10/2000 09:21:59
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
As to the first question: No only NetBSD. As to the second one : I have not
decided. Also it currently has about 8MB installed, and runs Linux very slowly.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr]
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 8:54 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: Netbsd-Help
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for installing the most recent version of
> NetBSD on a 486 based laptop
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:30:56PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> > I have just acquired a Dell Lattitude XP Laptop. It does not have
> a CD drive,
> > although this model has been sold wearing one. It does a have PC card based
> > modem. Any suggestions for installing NetBSD on it?
>
> Do you plan to run only NetBSD, or windows+NetBSD ? In the second situation
> you can download the binary sets with windows, and install from the windows
> partition.
>
> > For example exactly how
> > much memory is considered optimum?
>
> Well, this depends on you applications and environnement (kde needs much more
> RAM than fvwm for example :), but usually 64M is enouth.
>
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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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