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Article #56964Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful enough for Redhat 4.0?
From: Brian Miller
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 00:00
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 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Brian Miller Telstra CDN Product Group 30/242 Exhibition Street ITG Communication Network Platforms Melbourne, VIC 3000 bmiller@telstra.com.au Australia Tel: +61-3-9632-3883 FAX: +61-3-9632-3884 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,85cfe9f2af72040 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Brian Miller <bmiller@telstra.com.au> Subject: Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful enough for Redhat 4.0? Date: 1996/12/02 Message-ID: <32A2052B.167EB0E7@telstra.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 201763551 references: <32927cc9.2316439@NewsServer.cc.monash.edu.au> <57dtbm$c5l@dsdata.DIALix.oz.au> <329F9E30.75F677A8@labyrinth.net.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Telstra mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.computers.linux x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4c)