Will more RAM help with slow browsing?

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ally · #21 Post by **ally** » Wed 15 May 2013, 12:24

just a quick note, I suggested the pfix=ram on boot to resolve access to his hdd

I think he was booting from cd and it was picking up the savefile from hdd

rjbrewer · #22 Post by **rjbrewer** » Wed 15 May 2013, 13:04

ally wrote:just a quick note, I suggested the pfix=ram on boot to resolve access to his hdd

I think he was booting from cd and it was picking up the savefile from hdd

Best to ask questions about equipment and type of install
before making recommendations.

Swap "file" and swap "partition" are two different things.

ally · #23 Post by **ally** » Wed 15 May 2013, 13:45

must be lost in translation somewhere.....................

Dewbie · #24 Post by **Dewbie** » Wed 15 May 2013, 21:42

rjbrewer wrote:

Swap "file" and swap "partition" are two different things.

BarryK addresses swap "file" over here.
Note: Read closely his last post in the comments section.

Rahl333 · #25 Post by **Rahl333** » Wed 15 May 2013, 23:28

So I booted from the cd and entered 'puppy pfix=ram'

Then I was reinstalling by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo
I set up a new partition table in gparted, and I created a swap. I clicked apply and eventually got this error message: "an error occurred while applying the operations", then the swap changes to "unknown".

Does anyone know what went wrong?

rjbrewer · #26 Post by **rjbrewer** » Wed 15 May 2013, 23:53

Rahl333 wrote:So I booted from the cd and entered 'puppy pfix=ram'

Then I was reinstalling by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo
I set up a new partition table in gparted, and I created a swap. I clicked apply and eventually got this error message: "an error occurred while applying the operations", then the swap changes to "unknown".

Does anyone know what went wrong?

Did you get the system installed?
What partition number and what size?
A full or frugal install?

Size and partition number of attempted swap partition?

Rahl333 · #27 Post by **Rahl333** » Thu 16 May 2013, 03:13

rjbrewer wrote:
Did you get the system installed?
What partition number and what size?
A full or frugal install?

Size and partition number of attempted swap partition?

No I did not get it installed. I'm running it from the live disc.
36.75gb is new partition #1 ext2
511mb for new partition #2 linux-swap

its all from /dev/sda.

I don't really know what i'm doing

I hope this is what you were asking for.

Rahl333 · #28 Post by **Rahl333** » Thu 16 May 2013, 03:42

Create primary partition #2 (linux-swap, 511.00 MiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:01 (ERROR)

mkswap:: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version BLKKID_2.21' not found (required by mkswap)

rjbrewer · #29 Post by **rjbrewer** » Thu 16 May 2013, 04:01

Here is simpler instructions for a full install:
Skip down to part 2 after booting the cd.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653

The instructions are a bit old; partitions are now sda, not
hda; and grub needs to be run from the menu after the
install.

Been playing around with an old pc that has poor onboard
graphic card.
Increasing ram over 256mb or adding a swap partition
did nothing to improve youtube video quality.
A slightly better agp video card helped a little.
The old "Dimensions" didn't even have an agp slot.
You would probably have to find a "pci" card video upgrade. May not be cheap.

Sky Aisling · #30 Post by **Sky Aisling** » Fri 17 May 2013, 18:36

Rahl333
Welcome.

Here is how you do a Puppy pfix=ram (just in case you missed it).

When the Puppy logo shows on the screen, quickly hit the F2 key.
This will take you to a red and black screen that gives you many options on how to run Puppy.
Follow the instructions.
Puppy pfix=ram

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