Will more RAM help with slow browsing?
Best to ask questions about equipment and type of installally wrote:just a quick note, I suggested the pfix=ram on boot to resolve access to his hdd
I think he was booting from cd and it was picking up the savefile from hdd
before making recommendations.
Swap "file" and swap "partition" are two different things.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
rjbrewer wrote:
BarryK addresses swap "file" over here.
Note: Read closely his last post in the comments section.
Swap "file" and swap "partition" are two different things.
BarryK addresses swap "file" over here.
Note: Read closely his last post in the comments section.
So I booted from the cd and entered 'puppy pfix=ram'
Then I was reinstalling by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo
I set up a new partition table in gparted, and I created a swap. I clicked apply and eventually got this error message: "an error occurred while applying the operations", then the swap changes to "unknown".
Does anyone know what went wrong?
Then I was reinstalling by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo
I set up a new partition table in gparted, and I created a swap. I clicked apply and eventually got this error message: "an error occurred while applying the operations", then the swap changes to "unknown".
Does anyone know what went wrong?
Did you get the system installed?Rahl333 wrote:So I booted from the cd and entered 'puppy pfix=ram'
Then I was reinstalling by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo
I set up a new partition table in gparted, and I created a swap. I clicked apply and eventually got this error message: "an error occurred while applying the operations", then the swap changes to "unknown".
Does anyone know what went wrong?
What partition number and what size?
A full or frugal install?
Size and partition number of attempted swap partition?
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
rjbrewer wrote:
Did you get the system installed?
What partition number and what size?
A full or frugal install?
Size and partition number of attempted swap partition?
No I did not get it installed. I'm running it from the live disc.
36.75gb is new partition #1 ext2
511mb for new partition #2 linux-swap
its all from /dev/sda.
I don't really know what i'm doing I hope this is what you were asking for.
Here is simpler instructions for a full install:
Skip down to part 2 after booting the cd.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653
The instructions are a bit old; partitions are now sda, not
hda; and grub needs to be run from the menu after the
install.
Been playing around with an old pc that has poor onboard
graphic card.
Increasing ram over 256mb or adding a swap partition
did nothing to improve youtube video quality.
A slightly better agp video card helped a little.
The old "Dimensions" didn't even have an agp slot.
You would probably have to find a "pci" card video upgrade. May not be cheap.
Skip down to part 2 after booting the cd.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653
The instructions are a bit old; partitions are now sda, not
hda; and grub needs to be run from the menu after the
install.
Been playing around with an old pc that has poor onboard
graphic card.
Increasing ram over 256mb or adding a swap partition
did nothing to improve youtube video quality.
A slightly better agp video card helped a little.
The old "Dimensions" didn't even have an agp slot.
You would probably have to find a "pci" card video upgrade. May not be cheap.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
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Will more RAM help with slow browsing?
Rahl333
Welcome.
Here is how you do a Puppy pfix=ram (just in case you missed it).
When the Puppy logo shows on the screen, quickly hit the F2 key.
This will take you to a red and black screen that gives you many options on how to run Puppy.
Follow the instructions.
Puppy pfix=ram
Welcome.
Here is how you do a Puppy pfix=ram (just in case you missed it).
When the Puppy logo shows on the screen, quickly hit the F2 key.
This will take you to a red and black screen that gives you many options on how to run Puppy.
Follow the instructions.
Puppy pfix=ram