Help! (486 setup advice) (fwd)

[sgordon at kenan.com (Seth Gordon)]

I recently installed Red Hat 6.0 on a 486 machine.

For Red Hat, you need at least 16 MB of RAM, and their default installations
take up quite a bit more than 100 MB.  (I'm not sure how much, but it's
definitely less than 4 GB, which is the smallest hard drive on the market
these days.)

However, LOAF (Linux On A Floppy -- http://loaf.ecks.org/) can run in 4 MB
(although 6 MB is recommended) on a 486, and LRP (the Linux Router Project
-- http://www.linuxrouter.org/) can run a basic router in 12 MB.  Both of
these distributions fit on one 1.44MB floppy disk, so the size of your hard
drive is irrelevant.

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== seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer ==
== documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma ==


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