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Cacarulo: Re: Laptop blues
> My primary laptop is a Toshiba PIII 650 Mhz
> w/320 MB RAM. Okay, it's not exactly state
> of the art, but I hate to spend a lot of
> money on laptops because they generally only
> last a couple of years before I manage to
> destroy them.
> The install was painless. I installed qemu,
> plugged the laptop into my LAN, and copied
> the hd.img file onto my home directory on
> the laptop hard drive. I didn't even have to
> reinstall the apps.
> Everything works, but it is reallllly
> slooooow. Even with the speed parameters
> maxed out, Casino Verite takes about 5
> minutes to boot and is slow, although not
> unplayable. CVCX also takes time to load,
> and it takes 3 or 4 seconds to register when
> a parameter is changed when viewing one of
> the canned sims. I didn't even think about
> trying to actually run a sim with it.
> Looks like it's upgrade time. :-)
Before doing the upgrade I'd try to start everything from scratch instead of using an SO that was installed for a different architecture.
Cac
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