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John, Are there "Elmers" in the group that could help me through an install? We're not talking anything exotic here, not even a color monitor, and I'd be delighted to supply the beer ;-). I don't care if it's Red Hat or Slackware, but I would like to use the 386 if at all possible. TIA. Bill Horne On Monday, January 04, 1999 5:07 PM, John Abreau [SMTP:jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org] wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, jethro wrote: > > > > > For recycled machines, I would have at least 8MB RAM and a 100MB > > hard > > disk, with CDROM (even if only borrowed for the duration of the > > install, > > and returned afterwards) and 3-1/2" floppy. I have never seen > > linux > > successfully running on a 386, so I suppose that's a > > recommendation in > > itself. A smaller hard drive is possible, but then you wouldn't > > have > > enough space for applications such as emacs and other > > miscellanious stuff. > > And don't forget a swap partition! At 40MB, using 8MB of that as > > swap > > will seem like a huge amount. > > I did a side-by-side comarison a few years ago that illustrates the > importance of memory. I had a 16-MHz 386 with 16MB or RAM, and a 33- > MHz > 486 with 8MB of RAM. I installed identical Slackware systems on the > two > boxes, and the 386, at half the speed but with twice the RAM, ran > circles > around the 486. When I upgraded the 486 to 16MB, of course, the 486 > then > ran much faster than the 386. I found 8MB to be unuseable when > running X. > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: jabr at blu.org / URL: http://www.blu.org > ICQ#26171446 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the > change > to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > > *** > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject > of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org
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