Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

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.

You should be just fine.  I'm running FC3 on an 233MHz Pentium MMX 
laptop, 40GB disk, 256MB RAM.  FC3 is just as slow as FC2.  Wich menas 
slow (in comparation with Windows XP on the same box).  Your 192MB RAM 
is more than enough, and your much faster processor will make things 
actually usable.

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