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Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI

From Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.comp.os.windows-10, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, alt.comp.freeware, comp.sys.hp.hardware, alt.comp.hardware
Subject Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI
Date 2020-09-26 10:24 -0700
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David W. Hodgins wrote:
> Arlen Holder wrote:
>> As long as it works with the HP LJ 3200m scanner, I'm fine with Linux.
> 
> $ grep 'HP LaserJet 3200' /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat
> model1=HP LaserJet 3200 All-in-One Printer
> model2=HP LaserJet 3200se All-in-One Printer
> 
>>> Since your machine has 2G ram, it has even more linux options than my 1G
>>> machine; likely the 'bottleneck' restricting choices would be what its
>>> old graphics are, which we don't know at this point.
> 
>> Actually, it has only 1/2 GB of RAM.
>> o It's a $500 Dell Inspiron B130.
> 
I misread his 1/2 as 2.  0.5 isn't much ram.  I don't have anything 
around here that low.  Even my RPi3B is 1 G.

> I have Mageia 7 running xfce4 on a toshiba portege with 1GB ram. 
> That's slow enough that trying to run on 1/2 GB would be swapping 
> before it even starts to load a desktop environment. It might be ok
> as a command line only system, any but gui would be intolerably
> slow.
> 
I have a current Sparky minimal GUI that is pretty light.

It is OpenBox over Debian.  The Raspbian on the RPi is OB & some LXDE 
parts.  Sparky uses Thunar file, LX term.  Its free -m to the live 
desktop is 237.


-- 
Mike Easter

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Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-09-11 23:07 +0000
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        Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-09-26 12:19 -0400
          Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2020-09-26 10:24 -0700
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