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["Alejandro Lieber" <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

On  2 Mar 05 at 15:29, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> 
> > Sindi:
> >
> > Yesterday night, I formated again hda2, and loaded again my BL3
> > backup from a loop.
> 
> I keep my installations on at least two computers and I can copy between 
> them if one goes bad.
> 
> > You are right about small HD. I have a 52Mby working in my office, 9
> > hours a day for more than 12 years.
> 
> > In this machine I have a 250Mby drive, 15Mby for Linux, a 6Mby swap
> > and the rest for PC-DOS.
> 
> I find that our TTL monitors don't ever die, they just eventually get 
> burnin.  They stay crisp and bright the whole time.  But we were given two 
> with problems.  They also use less power and are easier to read.  Only 
> problem is you cannot do VGA screen fonts on them (or text with more than 
> 80 columnes or 24 lines) so I have both TTL and VGA on the same machine.

The only monitor I use with Linux is a 12" Samsung Yellow hercules.
 
> Have you needed the swap partition?  I have only needed it if I 
> have less than 12MB RAM (but I don't use X on computers with 12MB 
> RAM).  I find 32MB is plenty for everything else other than 
> compiling (which used 80-90MB). 

This 486DLC has 8Mbys of memory.
The swap.img is aprox. 6Mbys.
I don't use X.

When I look at the swap.img file with a DOS editor, I see that the 
first megabyte of the swap is completly written.



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Ing. Alejandro Lieber  
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