User Feedback :: DSL on a 486 SX25 + 8Mb RAM ?

Just got DSL running on an NEC Versa 6050MH with 150mHz Pentium MMX and 48 megs of RAM. Haven't tried to install on the HD yet. Also read the PCMCIA Ethernet card just fine. Very nice.

I've found that 12 MB RAM is required to run DSL with XWindows - you may be able to get by with 8MB RAM and a swapfile running in terminal mode ie boot with the option

knoppix 2

The "attic ware" system I used had a high powered 486SX33 overclocked to 40 MHz with a 170 MB Hard disk - FAT formatted with a base dos system and DSL booted with loadlin - DSL files transferred from windows machine using laplink and laplink parallel port cable

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John

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and how does your pc behave. does it surf the net decently? can you use ted with sufficient speed? what pocessor is your laptop? 486?
davide

original here.