Re: Possible convert
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 KevinJ2525@aol.com wrote:
> I have thinking for sometime switching over to linux. Before I do a total
> conversion I want to test the waters a little bit. I have an old Gateway,
> 486 66 machine with about 16 megs of RAM, 1 gig of hard disk and 8X cd
> player. Could iLinux be installed on such a machine? I don't want to
> upgrade the hardware but I can if it will make a real difference.
> Thank you for any advice.
> Kevin Jennings
The machine that I am composing this message on is an IBM ValuePoint
486dx2/66, with 16 MB RAM, and only a 120 MB HD. I am mounting all the
main partitions over NFS until I can get a bigger drive to put in here.
This machine works great, and runs the X Window System fairly nice. My
gateway/firewall/server/ipmasq box is a 486sx/25, with 20 MB RAM, and a
1.2 GB HD. Both run Debian very nicely. I have considered taking 8 MB
out of the other box and adding to this one (to give it 24 MB RAM), but
yet to do so. I think you'll find that Debian will run very nice on
that machine.
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