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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] pdftotext
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:23:32 +0000

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:41:09AM +0000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> >
> > Actaully my kernel is:
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> > | Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 12.44 BogoMIPS
>
> That looks like a 486-25

What does the -25 mean?

>
> > | Memory: 3164k/4352k available
>
> That looks like 4mb RAM, but 4352k is higher than usual.
> I'm guessing that your laptop provides a bit more than

Desktop.

> 4mb RAM (with that amount of RAM, every little bit helps).
>
> > | Linux version 2.0.0 (sag@DiD) (gcc version 2.7.2) #15
> > Thu Jan 6 00:12:32 EST 2000
>
> Wow, that's an old kernel. Even though it was compiled
> in 2000, your kernel is from 1996 (the BL1 kernel is from
> 1998, and the BL2 kernel is from 2000).
>

I got it from:

SourceForge: Project
Filelist|http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=595

It is fast for my ram.

> > | tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
> > | tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
>
> Slow COM ports -- unsuitable for current external modems.

Just enough for text.

>
> > | hda: Conner Peripherals 120MB - CP30104H
>
> Small HD, but plenty of room for BL1.
>
> > | hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
>

I dos primary, 2 Linux partitions each about 20 Mbtyes (good for
installing small Linuxes and upgrade) and a swap partition. It boots to
dos and uses loadlin to start linux.

> Four partitions. That's quite a lot for a 120mb HD.
>
> > | Adding Swap: 2804k swap-space
>
> That is too little swap -- your system will be stressed
> and (perhaps) unstable. I strongly recommend you increase

The screen always scrambles so I have to reboot but it is bearable.

> swap to 8mb.

If there is discarded ram I can assess.

>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
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