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]>
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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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 -- Change [email protected] to [email protected] for email replies.