Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-10 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:39:07PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says the system should have

RE: Required Hardware?

2000-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-2000 Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM. Any chance I can get my system running with only 8MB? It'll run, but you may have to go through some gyrations. Don't expect X to be useful, and you might have problems with the installer

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-06 Thread John Anderson
I just installed Debian 2.2 on an 386 20 mhz deskpro w/10 mb of ram. I found the install was slow and very slow to boot up, but with a custom kernel it boots much faster and the performance of the system is significantely increased. At http://www.linuxdoc.org, under mini-HOWTO's there is one