On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have thinking for sometime switching over to linux. Before I do a total > conversion I want to test the waters a little bit. I have an old Gateway, > 486 66 machine with about 16 megs of RAM, 1 gig of hard disk and 8X cd > player. Could iLinux be installed on such a machine? I don't want to > upgrade the hardware but I can if it will make a real difference. > Thank you for any advice. > Kevin Jennings
The machine that I am composing this message on is an IBM ValuePoint 486dx2/66, with 16 MB RAM, and only a 120 MB HD. I am mounting all the main partitions over NFS until I can get a bigger drive to put in here. This machine works great, and runs the X Window System fairly nice. My gateway/firewall/server/ipmasq box is a 486sx/25, with 20 MB RAM, and a 1.2 GB HD. Both run Debian very nicely. I have considered taking 8 MB out of the other box and adding to this one (to give it 24 MB RAM), but yet to do so. I think you'll find that Debian will run very nice on that machine. ------------------------------------------------------ hypnos <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>