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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: New Strategy for Linux
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>>Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff
>before
>>I find out it doesn't:
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> In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old '386sx with 16
>megs of ram and a 200 meg drive. It worked...well sorta...if you could
>stand the speed (which I couldn't).
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>>486SX/25 (I know it sucks, but I have it lying around in my house)
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> Sucks less than my '386sx16 board....egads...that was painful. Sensing
>a thread? :)
>
Change that to a 468DX2/66... my friend is giving me his old one.
>>8MB RAM ('Cuz 16 would cost to much :o)
>
> You will *REALLY* want to put at least 16 in the box. Memory is pretty
>damn cheap (I've seen it on sale at Best Buy for bout $30 for 16 megs (72
>pin). Look around...hell scavenge it if you have to. You won't be sorry.
>BUT, if your never going to run X with this system, then maybe you can get
>away with only eight. Our internal web-server at work runs on eight megs of
>ram....doesn't do much else though. Running RH 5.0
>
Hm... I like X... so I can afford to get 16MB.
>>Tseng ET4000 Video Card ('cuz I have one)
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> Yup...should work fine.
>
>>Partitions:
>> (hda1) /: 492MB
>> (hda2) swap: 32MB
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> With eight megs of ram you'll be hitting the swap quite a bit. You
>might want to make this bigger if you can.
I could make it 64MB.
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> Just my 2 cents....
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> Damond
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