Linux on older machines

[jfinger at hmm.com (Jonathan Finger)]

    I just tried to intall Redhat 5.2 on a 66MHz 486 with 8 Meg of
    Ram. The installation software thrashed very badly. It litterally
    took minutes for keystrokes to be processed. I eventually
    managed to get the swap partition enabled and then the keystroke
    response was OK.

    However, 8 hours later when only 10% of the software was installed,
    I terminated the install.

    I added 8 Meg of (borrowed) memory and the install worked fine.
    (about 1 hour)

    I then removed the extra 8 Meg of memory and the system works fine.
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