Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.sys.hp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | NOYB |
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[Stripped alt.comp.freeware. Too many groups.] Mike Easter <[email protected]> wrote: > David W. Hodgins wrote: > > Arlen Holder 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 misread his 1/2 as 2. 0.5 isn't much ram. I don't have anything > around here that low. Even my RPi3B is 1 G. > > > 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. > > > I have a current Sparky minimal GUI that is pretty light. > > It is OpenBox over Debian. The Raspbian on the RPi is OB & some LXDE > parts. Sparky uses Thunar file, LX term. Its free -m to the live > desktop is 237. 512MB might be too little for modern Linux versions, but it was quite OK for Windows XP. My first XP laptop had only 256MB and was (and is) fine. SWMBO's later XP laptop was 512MB.