Yellow Dog Linux

Hi everyone Just installed ydl3 on pb3400 and need help. (this took me days lol) so if any one wonts to know how to do it just ask.

As I only have 32mb ram its xxxxx useless and ydl2.3 fails to install though the instructions seem clear. hence the version 3. If I am to succeed I need some help please. Has anyone had any success in running such a m/c with ydl on so low a ram?. It only has to do e-mail and surfing with a little letter writing and printing.

The printer is a b/w stylewriter

The Modem is a Global villagev.92 model no 6250 but it is not seen

What is the correct way to remove applications and their "stuff" and speed things up.

I would rather get an older version up and running well than a slow system

any help gratefully recieved thanks.

Yikes! I have a full 144MB of RAM on my 3400c. Linux likes RAm, so I highly reccomend boosting it if you can.

Nikolai Stanosheck wrote:Yikes! I have a full 144MB of RAM on my 3400c. Linux likes RAm, so I highly reccomend boosting it if you can.

So I see its painful, I'll see if I can find some cheap somewhere. If not I'll have another go at ydl 2 see if things inprove. Thanks anyway

another option is to make a decent size swap partition on the hdd (yes its slower then ram) but itll allow u to get by with a lot less ram

StarKnight83 wrote:another option is to make a decent size swap partition on the hdd (yes its slower then ram) but itll allow u to get by with a lot less ram

You mean like a ram disk in mac talk? If so How do I do it

like a ram disk

no actually the other way around.

create a spare partition on the disc. about 1-2x the ram size you have.
make it a swap filesystem.

on linux you can enable the swap with the swapon command.

if the machine is short on ram, it will put parts of the not so often used ram info onto the disc to make some space for applications that need the ram.

but if all the apps need it, well, you might swap to death

Thanks I've just deleted ydl 3 and will try again to get ydl 2 installed if i am successful I'll try the swap dick cheers.

welll, if you reinstall, then create the swap partition immediatelly and the installer will include it in the fstab.

so it's on by default.

in case it isn't you can add the partition in your fstab entry, so you don't need to activate swap manually.

try the command "top" to nicely see the swap info of the system.