Hi Thomas, This came off the list, but it can be interesting for other people with similar hardware, so I'll put it back on the mail list. On Tuesday 13 May 2008 11:51:31 pm Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Well, I don't have it yet, but the person who will be giving it to me said, it is: Sharp Mebius PC-MJ105M 14.1 inch TFT Celeron 433 MHz 64 MB (SDRAM) 12 GB HDD(E-IDE 24 x CD-ROM originally came with Windows 98 SE

Would that be too old, slow, lacking in power etc.?

It would be too small RAM and not very fast CPU. The rest is fine. Although I installed openSUSE 10.2 on similar old IBM laptop, the installation and boot is very slow, even with KDE stripped of all eye candies. I can't recall did I tried any other window manager. The trick is to have ready swap partition. Some openSUSE versions were able to create one during installation, but I didn't tried to install 10.3 on any very small machine so I'm not sure is it possible. You can see also: http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE_-_Test_openSUSE_on_Minimal_Hardware It is a bit old article, but you can find some helpful tips. I tried also DSL (Damn Small Linux) and it runs fine on 64 MB. That distro is using Knoppix based hardware detection, that is recognized as the best test does hardware work under Linux or not. It is only 50 MB and uses older, smaller kernel version 2.4 that is still maintained. The web page is: http://damnsmalllinux.org/ I would give it a try id openSUSE is too slow. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org