[Cialug] Compaq notebook 100

[Nathaniel Petersen]

# apt-get install xfce4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  a2ps emacsen-common fortune-mod fortunes-min gtk2-engines-xfce libdbh1.0-1
  libgtkhtml2-0 librecode0 libxfce4mcs-client-2 libxfce4mcs-manager-2
  libxfce4util-1 libxfcegui4-3 mousepad rox-filer xfcalendar xfce4-appfinder
  xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-iconbox xfce4-mcs-manager
  xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-lib-alsa xfce4-panel xfce4-session
  xfce4-systray xfce4-toys xfce4-trigger-launcher xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xffm4
  xfprint4 xfwm4 xfwm4-themes
Suggested packages:
  emacs21-nox emacsen groff gv html2ps imagemagick tetex-bin t1-cyrillic
  xfmedia dbus-1-utils xterminal xfce4-theme-brushedchrome
Recommended packages:
  lpr cupsys-client psutils wdiff gqview
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  a2ps emacsen-common fortune-mod fortunes-min gtk2-engines-xfce libdbh1.0-1
  libgtkhtml2-0 librecode0 libxfce4mcs-client-2 libxfce4mcs-manager-2
  libxfce4util-1 libxfcegui4-3 mousepad rox-filer xfcalendar xfce4
  xfce4-appfinder xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-iconbox
  xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-lib-alsa
  xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-systray xfce4-toys xfce4-trigger-launcher
  xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xffm4 xfprint4 xfwm4 xfwm4-themes
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 59.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

# apt-get install blackbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  blackbox
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 263kB of archives.
After unpacking 999kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe blackbox 0.65.0-3 [263kB]
Fetched 263kB in 3s (67.0kB/s)                          

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package blackbox.
(Reading database ... 59480 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking blackbox (from .../blackbox_0.65.0-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up blackbox (0.65.0-3) ...

...'nuf said.

On 6/30/05, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> 
> blackbox.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theron Conrey [mailto:theron at conrey.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:15 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Compaq notebook 100
> 
> 
> 
> A friend of mine recently tossed me a notebook to keep saying that it
> wouldn't run anything anymore.  Rather than argue, I went ahead and
> loaded Debian 3.1 with the 2.4 kernel on it. (the 2.6 kernel load was
> giving me some funky error messages about the single usb port on it.) My
> question is: What window manager would you use?  I've got the base
> system installed but now I want to give this back to the person who gave
> it to me and show them that the hardware is still "good"  It's a k6 450
> I believe with 128 megs (I had an extra dimm laying around was x2 18's
> for a whopping 32 megs) and am looking for a lightweight wm.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Theron
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