[brlug-newbies] HP Pavilion Tower

[Joe Fruchey]

(Sorry, should have put this all in one message.)

Looks like Crucial wants $54 for a 256MB stick of PC133, but it's only
$10 on eBay.

I would go to Crucial.com, look up the exact model number and find out
exactly what type and how high you can go.

On 11/16/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu's great. Real easy. That machine is underpowered for it, though.
>
> I've been itching to give the new gOS a run, but even with e17, that
> hardware's a bit slow.
>
> Your biggest problem is going to be the RAM. If you want to run
> anything on it besides DSL or Puppy, you're gonna need more memory.
> What's PC133 running on eBay these days? Buying it new will be
> expensive, what with supply and demand and whatnot.
>
> On 11/16/07, Gary Stibbins <ghostrider2x at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uncle left me an HP Pavilion,500 Mhz clock speed,194 Mb ram,  a 3 Com
> > networking board, A USB Wireless adaptor,Internal CD R-rw, a 12 gig
> > master,and a 15 gig slave.Maybe I shouldn't say this but it has 2000
> > Professional on 12 gig.Now,since I am new to Linus,what would be best for me
> > to try to install on slave? Doing the partitions is a major concern,so give
> > me some something that fairly easy to set up,if that is possible.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > --
> > Gary
> > ghostrider
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