Installing on an old Eee PC 900

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Tue Oct 30 10:36:59 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:37:17PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 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.
> 
Ah, sorry, misread.  With 16Gb 'disk' space you should be OK.

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Chris Green




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