<div>the specification of my laptop :</div>
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<div>model: IBM 240Z 81J</div>
<div>PIII 600/192RAM/20G(4200)/LAN/floppy/no cdrom</div>
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<div>yan</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/01/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Cannon</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@cannon-linux.co.uk">peter@cannon-linux.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:58, alex yan wrote:<br><br>> finally, a SUSE 10 OSS version linux has been installed into the old
<br>> laptop. But the speed of the GNOME GUI system is too slow.<br><br>Whats the spec of the laptop?<br><br>IMHO<br>Gnome is a sugary nice desktop and what most MS users would like but its very<br>resource hungry.<br>
<br>KDE is more business like and what most business people would expect to see.<br><br>Why not use FWVM its very light weight.<br><br>> The installation procedure:<br>> 1. download SUSE 10 OSS installer from <a href="http://SOURCEFOURGE.NET">
SOURCEFOURGE.NET</a><br>> 2. download 5 cds iso files from mirror site.<br>> 3. extract 5 iso files into one directory of the windows' partition<br>> 4. run suse10oss installer under WinXP<br>> 5, after rebooting your machine, enter 'install linux' option under the
<br>> GRUB (installed automatically by the INSTALLER software)<br>> 6. follow the instructions to install linux...<br>> 7. choose the media source from 'Harddisk', and type the correct directory<br>> name in the windows's partition, ............etc...()
<br>> 8. Mission completed!<br>><br>> **One thing need to be consdered is the process of modifying partition.<br>> erase the entry of the WindowXP which is detected automatically by the<br>> installer, otherwise, it will not allow you to install correctly.
<br>> ***Another thing, during the installation process, once the CD1 finished,<br>> the install source path need to be manually modified to CD2, cd3, cd4, cd5.<br>> Of course, if the 5 cds, has been put together in one directory, this will
<br>> be no problem.<br><br>Never done an install of SuSE that way, I take it you burnt the iso's 1st?<br>usually you'd stick the 5 images on the Windows partition I wonder if thats<br>why you had to change the install path after CD1?
<br><br>> lol....Just want to share information, plz do not say these information are<br>> rubbish...:-)<br><br>If you tidy it up a bit, and if you're interested I'll put it on my site. If<br>you have a quick look at this you'll see the method is similar.
<br><br><a href="http://cannon-linux.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=1">http://cannon-linux.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=1</a><br><br>--<br>Regards
<br>Peter Cannon<br>Fedora Core 4 & Suse 10.0<br>Jabber:<a href="mailto:highwayman.turpin@gmail.com">highwayman.turpin@gmail.com</a><br><br>"There is every excuse for not knowing,<br>There is no excuse for not asking!"
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