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

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From: Brian Miller
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 00:00
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Stephen Hearn wrote:
> 
> 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  :-)
> 

I had Linux running on a 386-20 with 4M RAM and two old and slow
80M and 40M drives.

I compiled a kernel on it once; just once...  It took 26 1/4 hours.

Brian
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