Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful enough for Redhat 4.0?

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From: Stephen Hearn
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:00

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Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> Dark Knight (bjlig1@silas.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
> : I'm trying to get Redhat 4.0 to install on my old 486DX2-66 8MB.
> : will I  have an acceptable speed? X-Window is not that important to me
> : ...yet
> 
> Mine runs on a 386DX25 notebook with 2M. I have no illusions of getting
> X-windows up without first at least quadrupling the RAM.

I ran slackware 1.2.13 on a 386DX40 (no X) with 4MB.  I tried
to keep the kernel as small as possible, but still had a lot of
memory paging.  Took me about 10 hours to compile a new kernel  :-)

hth
-- 
"Sometimes the milk can hurt you" - "The Dangerous Kitchen"
        Frank Zappa 1983
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Stephen Hearn
shearn@labyrinth.net.au

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