[plug] RAM for Laptop Needed

[Gavin Chester]

   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
   >Behalf Of Daniel Pearson
   >Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:46
   >To: plug at plug.org.au
   >Subject: [plug] RAM for Laptop Needed
   >
   >
   >Hey guys,
   >
   >I have my old Toshiba Satellite 3000 here, P3 800 128 Ram,
   >etc.. and I'm wanting
   >to setup Linux (Thinking of Fedora, or Ubuntu) on it. The only
   >problem is, I
   >can't get anything to install without a Kernel panic and such.
   >The last time I
   >encountered this problem, it was RAM.


Quite probably correct (but then, I don't want to appear as if I know more
than I do :-/ ).  I can only compare with a recent tinker that I had with my
desktop system.  I insist on using old hardware (PII) and found that FC4
wouldn't install on Celery 400 with 256 RAM.  It seemed as though it would
but then borked at the very end, twice, with some hardware changes in
between.  OTOH, I had SuSE 9.3 and Mandriva 2006 to hand and they both went
onto this PC just fine.  So maybe the zero-cost answer is to try a different
distro, but then your machine would love more RAM, anyway :-)

WARNING: This post is not meant to start a distro war ]:-|

Gavin