Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[Timothy Murphy]

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.)


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