Re: Debian install for beginners?

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.com> writes:

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> Hardware:
> - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old.
> - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX)

Probably not.  I believe 166 MHz was the slowest Pentium-MMX chip.

> - 64 Mb memory - no free memory slots :-( 

Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of 64MB,
so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I think
this effect would be less significant on Linux.

> - 3 Gb IDE disk - should be enough
> - ATAPI CD-Rom drive
> - 3.5" floopy (two of them actually!)
> - 3com Etherlink III ISA (they won't need it, but handy while setting
>   the box up)
> - Modem (not sure what type, but not a winmodem. Easy)
> - Creative SB 16 Pnp
> - S3Virge PCI(325) video card
> 
> The box is a salvage-job. My budget for all of this is non-existent. I 
> even managed to salvage an old monitor and keyboard (without the Windows
> key!). Unfortunately I will have to go over budget when it comes to 
> getting a mouse though... 

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>