Installing on an old Eee PC 900

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/10/29 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:09:01PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> Well, Lubuntu is not the subject of this thread, that's why.
>>
>> But I can at least say that one of the many problems is that the
>> update manager doesn't seem to work very good. Every time I try to
>> update, it says that some daemon died. I'm not sure which one, but I
>> can check it out if someone in interested. There are 152 updates
>> waiting at the moment… Maybe I can update in the gnome terminal
>> instead, I didn't try that.
>>
>> And before that happened the first time, I was told that there was not
>> enough disk space (SSD) for updating. Maybe that was true, I didn't
>> check it out any further.
>>
> With a 1Gb SSD (I think that's what you said) you're going to find it
> very difficult to successfully get *any* distribution to update itself
> successfully.

I didn't say that. Internal RAM= 1 GB, and I have a SSD instead of a
hard drive. I didn't mention the size, but it is 16 GB.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

>
> I have a similar small eeePc but with a 2Gb SSD, I found that virtually
> no full GUI installation could be maintained on that.  I currently run
> it as a server system with just the Ubuntu Base installation plus a few
> extras.  Even then I have to be quite careful to remove old Linux
> kernels as it updates or it runs into the "can't update because there's
> not enough space" situation.  At present it runs with between 60% and
> 70% disk usage which gives adequate (but not *very* adequate) space for
> keeping it updated.
>
> So, what I'm saying is, that a GUI Linux distribution simply isn't going
> to work on a 1Gb SSD system.
>
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