Re: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:50:10PM +0100, James Finch wrote: > secondhand Apricot SL550, 75MHz Pentium, 0.84GB hard drive. 32 MB ram > what version of debian should be used? > am completely ignorant Any Debian version should work with that hardware. The only limitation would be how many packages

Re: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?

2002-11-06 Thread Glyn Kennington
Colin Watson wrote: > installation manual for woody (Debian 3.0) says: > > You must have at least 12MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space. > For a minimal console-based system (all standard packages), 250MB is > required. If you want to install a reasonable amount of software, > includ

Re: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?

2002-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:34:50PM +0100, James Finch wrote: >what version of debian is suitable for an Apricot SL550, 75MHz >pentium, 0.84GB hard drive, 32MB ram? Would i be safer with >Mandrake 8.2 as i have been told? i know bugger all. In general you're likely to be able to install

RE: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?

2002-11-06 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Im running 'Potato' Debian 2.2 on a PackardBell 100MHz Pentium, 545MB Hard drive, 12MB ram. Runs GREAT I might add! So you might want to try the 'Potato' version. -Original Message- From: James Finch [mailto:finchjames@;lycos.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PRO