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I have an external Backpack 6X CDROM drive, and a Redhat 6.1 installation CD. I was wondering if I would be able to boot with a boot floopy to the installation disk in the drive. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite T2110CS (486) and only has a built-in floppy. If I did get it to install, would I be able to run X with only 8MB of RAM?
The laptop only has a 36.6 modem in it and the ext. CDROM is parallel.
Well, my p266 with 32 mb ram struggled, with xwindows on 6.2, and the swap file was smashed into oblivion and ran about as slow as my girlfriend getting ready for a night out (sorry for any ladies that read this, but its sooooooo true , 3 hours is exessive)
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, 3 hours is exessive)
