Help for Linux on bare-bones 386

[bhorne at banet.net (Bill Horne)]

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
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