Other Help Topics :: Need more memory...

If you have or get a USB stick, you could install frugal DSL on that...should run quite a bit faster than the CD.

I've got one, but it's 64MB, so no way to put DSL + gcc there. Nevermind though. Let's leave it as is.

Nevertheless, I'd really like to install emacs since I'm going to be using X after all and emacs is my most favorite editor. Is there a .dsl with it? [couldn't find one

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If not the only way's to remaster, right?

Nevertheless, thanks for all your help guys

I have a suggestion. You could add a swap file if you are willing to purchase a usb hard drive. They make very small (physically) hard drives with about 2 to 4 gigs of space that plug into the usb port. You could partition on of these with a swap partition and also have some extra file storage room.. Actually, you could also partition it so you could put DSL on it also. I have seen these on sale at Frys for about $70 at times. You could use a flash memory pin drive, but it would probably die a premature death due to the number of writes if used as swap.

You can still use your 64MB drive.

Put DSL on the 64MB drive and then burn the gcc1.dsl file to a CD-R disk or better yet save it to somewhere on your hard drive like C:\

If your drive and laptop both support USB2.0 , DSL will run very fast from this device. Similar to a frugal hard drive install and much faster than a livecd normal mode.

Another thing you can do is boot with "dsl dma".
This may improve the read speed of the cdrom drive. I know it works for multimedia, but I don't know what difference there may be with a standard data CD.

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