Re: Required Hardware?

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?

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

Required Hardware?

I have an Intel386, with 3.5"-1.44MB 5.25"-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, andWDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and aST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM. Any chance I can get my system

RE: Required Hardware?

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?

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?

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