Hi folks, On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote:
> Daniel Migowski wrote: > > On Montag, 20. November 2000 16:15, Jean-Marc Cadudal wrote: > > > I have an old 386 on which I'd like to install Debian 2.2. > > > HP Vectra RS/20 > > > 10 Mb RAM > > > 100 Mb DISK > > > Floppy 1,4 Mb > > > Floppy 1,2 Mb > > Btw. forget it. I saw a pentium/100 with 8MB RAM, and it was unusable slow. > > apt-get-installing a 20kb-package took 5 Minutes(!). After upgrading to > > 24MB > > RAM (didn't check 16MB), it was a cool server, even able to run small > > php3-scripts in a fast manner. > I have a 486 with 12mb of RAM, and it runs fine in text mode. I > don't use X anyway so that's cool with me. I would think 10mb > should be fine if you don't overload it. > > bekj Even 8Mb are fine. I run Debian potato on a 486 with 8Mb RAM and 340Mb harddisk. In textmode it's absolutely no problem. I even ran X on it, it worked not bad, though it really is not incredibly fast (though it really depends, what window-manager you use, I had best results with blackbox or uwm). If you have a network connection, you could run X over the network and use the machine as terminal. It is no problem to install programs with dpkg (use --smallmem option), when I upgraded from slink, I even used apt. Recently I found, that I only start X on that machine to look at my typeset tex-documents, so I purged it and installed svgalib and dvisvga, which also freed me a lot of hd-space. So depends, on what you want to do with the machine. Compiling larger programs can take several hours, rendering fonts with metafont also takes some minutes. But for textmode-working your machine should be fine (though I have no experience with 386, as already said, mine is a 486). Regards, Daniel