Running Puppy in <64MB RAM on Toshiba 4015cds (FIXED)
Posted: Sun 12 Nov 2006, 18:31
I'm trying to run Puppy on a live cd on this machine:
Toshiba Satellite 4015CDS / PAS401U-S6xx
Processor Intel Mobile Pentium(R) II 266MHz
Memory(MAX) 32MB
HDD 4.1GB (win98 installed)
Display Color Bright Dual Scan 12.1 800x600
Display controller C&T 65555
Video RAM 2MB
Sound Yamaha OPL3-SA3
PC Card controller TypeIIx2 or TypeIIIx1
I've had a similar problem to the one described here, and have managed to get to a desktop using the procedure described therein.
However all that then seems to happen is that the cd drive thrashes and the system is running so slow I cant get to run any setup.
there's no possibility for increasing the ram sorry to say
I've run Puppy before and i seem to recall that it asked me if i wanted to create a swapfile, but i didn't get that on this occasion, maybe because I'm missing a step because of the display problem?
i'd like to install puppy on the hdd but can't seem to boot it into any useful state. this machine is just intended to be a little network filestore so can be really basic setup
I'm using puppy 2.02 but i can easily make a 2.11 or a meanpuppy if anyone thinks that will help ... which is what i need!
the basic questions are:
how do i create a swapfile so i have some virtual memory to play with and speed it all up?
can i repartition the existing drive to keep a tiny windows ptn and the rest for puppy and network filestore
thanks in advance
Paul
Toshiba Satellite 4015CDS / PAS401U-S6xx
Processor Intel Mobile Pentium(R) II 266MHz
Memory(MAX) 32MB
HDD 4.1GB (win98 installed)
Display Color Bright Dual Scan 12.1 800x600
Display controller C&T 65555
Video RAM 2MB
Sound Yamaha OPL3-SA3
PC Card controller TypeIIx2 or TypeIIIx1
I've had a similar problem to the one described here, and have managed to get to a desktop using the procedure described therein.
However all that then seems to happen is that the cd drive thrashes and the system is running so slow I cant get to run any setup.
there's no possibility for increasing the ram sorry to say
I've run Puppy before and i seem to recall that it asked me if i wanted to create a swapfile, but i didn't get that on this occasion, maybe because I'm missing a step because of the display problem?
i'd like to install puppy on the hdd but can't seem to boot it into any useful state. this machine is just intended to be a little network filestore so can be really basic setup
I'm using puppy 2.02 but i can easily make a 2.11 or a meanpuppy if anyone thinks that will help ... which is what i need!
the basic questions are:
how do i create a swapfile so i have some virtual memory to play with and speed it all up?
can i repartition the existing drive to keep a tiny windows ptn and the rest for puppy and network filestore
thanks in advance
Paul