Mini Linuxes

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I just got an ICQ message from a kid with a 386SX who wants to run Linux. 
> I pointed him at both the Red Hat as well as Debian site. He's got an old 
> Packard Bell with very little RAM (he says 2MB), I suspect he has more. I 
> don't think he has a cd-rom. I do know that the Debian distribution has a 
> floppy only install, but I am not sure I would want a beginner to start with 
> Debian, even as good as it is.

I suspect not.  I had a PB 386SX myself, and it came with only 1 MB, and
it could only be upgraded to 2 MB.

PB sux! :)

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Derek D. Martin           |  UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net |  dmartin at lancity.com

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