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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Old Laptop would like to run Arch on it

Hi,

I bought a cheap laptop on Ebay a RM A10 specs 1Ghz Amd Cpu 256mb ram 20gb HD... waiting for a power supply at the moment so do not have much more info at the moment.

Will need to source a card for wifi.

Question is would it run Arch? do I need more memory? and is 20gb big enough [mostly will be used to web and mail!]

MrG

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cdwillis

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From: /home/usa

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 294

Re: Old Laptop would like to run Arch on it

I have an old laptop similar to that (1.6ghz processor, 256mb ram, 20 Gig HD). I only have one partition on it and with that setup I have space for a few movies and albums I've downloaded. I've been meaning to put more ram into this one and I'd recommend you do that same. Of course it's not entirely necessary.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Old Laptop would like to run Arch on it

Ιt's "OK". Install Arch, then a lightweight environment (a standalone WM or Xfce/LXDE/E17) afterwards.

Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: Old Laptop would like to run Arch on it

More than enough! I run Arch on an old toshiba PII Celeron 450 with 192mb ram.  Originally it had 64mb ram and ran arch ok, 192mb its flies with Openbox.  I was actually using this as my main system for ages, till I got an eeepc.

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: Old Laptop would like to run Arch on it

OB is weapon of choice.... other than loading Firefox and some media stuff will do the job....

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