In with the (really) old!

[TheDead]

OK, I had to post this. albeit useless


It was long but I successfully installed Linux Lite on a Pentium 3, 10GB HDD annnd, wait for it... 2-5-6 MBs of ultrafast RAM!
It rebooted fine, was able to crawl and do updates and reboot too.
"Using"  the computer is another story though, almost anything is so slow that it "looks" crashed, but it's not.


I usually don't install under 1GB RAM on real crappy config but I didnt have any SDRAM RAM (ouch).
The project was too tempting. , even though the laptop was giving to a guy just wanting to have a serial port to control an external device. /_ () /_


Cheers!

[newtusmaximus]

What year was that machine do you think?  and which LL did you try. 2.0 series?

[TheDead]

[member=149]newtusmaximus[/member]

What year was that machine do you think?  and which LL did you try. 2.0 series?

it was this... thing :
https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-compaq-...ies/specs/


MSRP of 2499$USD , I loled!

[trinidad]

Yeah that bus speed 'll kill ya. One step up from DX66. Laptop makes it worse. Desktops you could add Voodoo card to and race the graphics.

TC

[Valtam]

You have so got to upload that system to the Hardware Database

[rokytnji]

After you do what Jerry says.

AntiX 17 runs semi-decent on my nonsse2 p3 cpu with 1 gig of ram laptop. Palemoonnonsse2 browser is my favorite browser on it. Flash is not installed. I barely get by on smtube without hammering the cpu. Firefox ESR and SeaMonkey hammer the cpu so bad. I left those behind. Forget Chromium or any other blink browser.

The internet has left you behind on gui apps on 256MB of ram. Put a hardware upgrade  in it like I did on mine < mine is dual bank 512MB >
I only keep mine as test bed for new AntiX releases. It has Savage graphics chip,< unsupported by newer xorg so I roll with vesa instead >

This post done a Acer C710 Chromebook running linux on internal 16 SSD that used to have ChromeOS Parrot on it.

Code:

$ pinxi -v8
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 dm: slim
  Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: N/A Chassis: type: 3
  serial: N/A
  Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: N/A BIOS: coreboot
  v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty date: 09/04/2014
Battery:
  BAT-X: charge: 31.3 Wh condition: 31.3/37.0 Wh (85%) volts: 17.2/14.8
  model: SANYO AL12B32 type: Li-ion serial: 0000000000001D0F status: Full
Memory:
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root?
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root?
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9
  L2 cache: 2048 KB
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 5986
  Speed: 1147 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds: 1: 798 2: 798
Graphics:
  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller driver: i915 v: kernel
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0156
  Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio Controller
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
  Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k v: kernel
  bus ID: 01:00 chip ID: 168c:0034
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 3c:77:e6:26:f5:b5
  IP v4: 192.168.254.68/24 scope: global broadcast: 192.168.254.255
  IP v6: fe80::3e77:e6ff:fe26:f5b5/64 scope: link
  Card-2: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: 3.137
  port: N/A bus ID: 02:00 chip ID: 14e4:16b5
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 20:1a:06:14:09:d9
  WAN IP: 98.18.1.55
Drives:
  HDD Total Size: 14.91 GiB used: 25.82 GiB (173.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD32G size: 29.72 GiB serial: 0x61881eb6 rev: 0x0
  ID-2: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SSD_U100 size: 14.91 GiB serial: 132553400495
  rev: 6.14
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 14.62 GiB used: 4.68 GiB (32.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
  label: rootantiX uuid: ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d
  ID-2: /media/E10C-A032 size: 29.71 GiB used: 21.14 GiB (71.1%) fs: vfat
  dev: /dev/mmcblk0p1 label: N/A uuid: E10C-A032
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 size: 29.72 GiB fs: root required label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
  Hub: 1:1 usb: 2.00 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub: 1:2 usb: 2.00 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024
  Device-1: Chicony Ltd bus ID: 1:4 usb: 2.00 type: Video chip ID: 04f2:b336
  Device-2: Foxconn / Hon Hai bus ID: 1:5 usb: 1.10 type: Bluetooth chip ID: 0489:e04e
  Hub: 2:1 usb: 2.00 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub: 2:2 usb: 2.00 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (in RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Active apt sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main nosystemd
  Active apt sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No apt repos found in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
  No apt repos found in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Processes:
  CPU  % used - Command - pid - Memory: MiB / % used - top: 5
  1: cpu: 42.2% command: firefox-esr pid: 14281 mem: 533.3MiB (18.5%)
  2: cpu: 2.2% command: xorg pid: 2234 mem: 59.4MiB (2.0%)
  3: cpu: 1.5% command: lxterminal pid: 18176 mem: 19.8MiB (0.6%)
  4: cpu: 0.8% command: bash pid: 18178 mem: 4.73MiB (0.1%)
  5: cpu: 0.4% command: conky pid: 2643 mem: 10.4MiB (0.3%)
  Memory MiB/% used - Command - pid - CPU: % used - top: 5
  1: mem: 533.3 MiB (42.2%) command: firefox-esr pid: 14281 cpu: 18.5%
  2: mem: 59.4 MiB (2.2%) command: xorg pid: 2234 cpu: 2.0%
  3: mem: 36.3 MiB (0.0%) command: python pid: 2590 cpu: 1.2%
  4: mem: 33.5 MiB (0.0%) command: spacefm pid: 2523 cpu: 1.1%
  5: mem: 27.7 MiB (0.0%) command: volumeicon pid: 2573 cpu: 0.9%
Info:
  Processes: 132 Uptime: 1:19 Memory: 2.81 GiB used: 669.9 MiB (23.3%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 alt: 6 Shell: bash 4.4.12
  running in: lxterminal pinxi: 2.9.02-2-p

This was on hands proof  of a concept install  for the distro team I belong to so they would know AntiX will run on Chromebook.
The IBM T23 P3 does the same job as this Chromebook as far as hands on proof of concept goes.

You will have to learn cli apps if wanting to use your laptop at any reasonable speed.
I can browse fast in Dillo and Links2,  Claws mail works OK if you close everything else.
I turn conky on and off depending on what I am doing.
Window manager instead of Desktop Environment is the norm.

P3 CPU is the choke point mostly. Not my 1 gig of ram.  Just look at my conky cpu bar
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/...n-ibm-t23/

[TheDead]

[member=2]Jerry[/member]
"You have so got to upload that system to the Hardware Database  "
The good news is that the guy that wanted the laptop for the serial did not take it in the end.
But, the machine was sent to the recycling bin. I'll see if it's still there next weekend... for prosterity!  Or better, to infinity! and beyond!  8)


[member=494]rokytnji[/member]
See above. I don't want to use this dinosaur, I don't even want to sell it for 5$ since it will come back because the buyer will try to YouTube or something and will fail miserably.
This happened in the past, people think a 10$ Laptop will get you the moon.  :


Cheeeeers!

[rokytnji]

Well if you find it and don't upgrade the ram. I'd run a WOMP cd on it . Install it to give it away. Then  call it a day.

https://archiveos.org/womp/

I keep a iso of it for kits like this.

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ cd Isos
harry@biker:~/Isos
$ ls
<snip>
womp-0.6-beta3-allcodecs-extrafonts-network-ppp-firebird.iso