Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI

"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:11:05 -0400, Arlen Holder <[email protected]> wrote:
> As long as it works with the HP LJ 3200m scanner, I'm fine with Linux.

$ grep 'HP LaserJet 3200' /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat
model1=HP LaserJet 3200 All-in-One Printer
model2=HP LaserJet 3200se All-in-One Printer

>> Since your machine has 2G ram, it has even more linux options than my 1G
>> machine; likely the 'bottleneck' restricting choices would be what its
>> old graphics are, which we don't know at this point.

> Actually, it has only 1/2 GB of RAM.
> o It's a $500 Dell Inspiron B130.

I have Mageia 7 running xfce4 on a toshiba portege with 1GB ram. That's slow
enough that trying to run on 1/2 GB would be swapping before it even starts
to load a desktop environment. It might be ok as a command line only system,
any but gui would be intolerably slow.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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