Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
Svein Ove Aas wrote:
On 6/20/05, borisman@netmail.kg borisman@netmail.kg wrote:
My name is Boris, and i have a question that google can not answer. I want to buy a very old notebook and i wonder will i be able to run slime on it. The notebook is Toshiba Saellite 2100CS with i486 DX 25 processor and 8 Mb ram. I want to install Dewbian Linux on it and work in text mode. (no XWindows). Will i be able use EMACS+SLIME+LISP on it ???
Slime itself should be no problem, nor should Emacs. Lisp, however, might be;
Ok; I wrote a much longer private e-mail to the OP, but I feel a need to summarize the main point here, for archival purposes. Linux in 8MB, on ancient graphics HW, with probably a small HD? This is ridiculous. The OP is dreaming. Prove that you can even run Linux first on such a worthless system, and then we'll talk about whether you can run anything on top of it. I was doing 16MB RAM on Linux in 1993, and it was uncomfortable by 1996. Time would be better spent on a minimum wage job to acquire old but more recent HW.
I really should have responded publically in the 1st place, to save all the private responses about the OP's probably lack of funds, etc. Points:
1) there's unlikely to be any graphics driver available for his laptop screen 2) the HD is probably not big enough to hold a Linux distro 3) wanting things to work won't make them work 4) being poor won't make them work 5) if work / income isn't available, then the OP would be better off trying to get someone to donate a better computer to him 6) if donations aren't possible, then he'll need to find a school or university computer to timeshare on or something.
(5) and (6) are better uses of time than trying to get Linux to work on this ancient laptop.