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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

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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