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[Ken Knierim]

Is there a memory configuration for Wine that can be adjusted? (I haven't
used it in quite a while and I'm sure things have changed)
Most of the linux systems I have use a lot less memory but I don't have any
booting from thumb drives (SD cards on embedded Debian controllers, yes).
4 Gig should be more than enough and an old Solidworks system should be
pretty stout.
Some of the older hardware couldn't address all the memory but Linux should
tell you how much it thinks it has available with the "free" command.

Cheers,

Ken in AZ




On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:01 PM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> We were discussing Linux a few weeks ago, and after deciding Mint/Mate
> would be a good choice, I had some initial success booting and running off
> a thumb drive. Then, I kind of set it aside.
>
> Now, renewed interest as my employer would like to see more work from
> home.  While I'm on the shop floor a lot, I do have a ton of paperwork as
> well.  I have my home computer (iMac) remote-connected to my workstation at
> work, which is... OK at best.  There are several things I find a bit
> annoying, and they'd mostly be resolved if I had two machines at home.
>
> Back to that old laptop.  The Libre Office package that comes with Linux
> is perfect for my needs, but I need to get it talking to my WiFi at home.
> I've got a Netgear USB Wifi interface for that laptop (tested, works fine
> under Windows) but Linux just ignores it.  Google to the rescue.  The
> solution involves Wine, a compatibility layer that allows Windows stuff to
> run under Linux.
>
> Problem - during the Wine install, I got a message that I was out of
> memory.  The bootable thumb drive is 128GB, so it sure as holy heck isn't
> full.  I have been hearing that operation off a thumb drive relies heavily
> on RAM.  This laptop has 4 GB.  I was taking the memory error to mean the
> thumb drive, but that's clearly wrong.  Maybe I need more than 4GB of RAM?
> Anybody run into anything like this, any words of wisdom?
>
> (Laptop is a Dell Precision M4400, a workstation-class machine when it was
> new in 2008.  I used to run Solidworks on it)
>
> Steve O.
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