Old Laptop + Ubuntu

azz ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Tue Sep 20 15:19:55 UTC 2005


Andy Melton Wrote: 
> Hello All, I have a Toshiba Satellite 315CDS, 32MB RAM, 200MHz, and a

> PCMCIA Netgear FA511 network card. I want to install Ubuntu server

> onto this system so I can play around with setting up servers, I am

> taking a course on Linux server administration and want to use Ubuntu

> after I finish the course. My question is, is this possible?

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> Take care,

> Andy T. Melton

> http://www.andymelton.net

> 

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I have a similar laptop and it works great.  I added 64 megs of memory
to the 32 that is onboard, though.  I have to load the i82365 module by
hand (since Hoary) to get pcmcia working.  This bug may already be fixed
in the latest pcmcia-cs package, though.


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azz




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