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Re: I need to help

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From: Tech Support
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:08
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Nope you see Red Hat Linux is over 650megs that would be over 650 Floppys
Your best bet would be to put a CD Rom in you computer .
Your MB should support a CD-Rom Drive.

Donald Ohse
tech@oseespcs.com

"Jerry" <chiu3112@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Help~
> I have the comptuer which cpu is older. I don't know what it is pentium or
> AMD, But I sure that is older than pentium 1.
> Can I use this comptuer run the linux OS?
> And I had add the EDO RAM about 16MB RAM and 1.2GB harddisk!
> Can I install and run the linux in this computer?
> I am just the new user and learning how to use.
> And I want to ask can I install it by flobby disk ?
> My old comptuer have not CD-ROM and I don't know the board can support the
> CD-Rom or not~
>
> Thx Help
>
>
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