hiya, i'd recommend just starting with stable. one release will probably not be horribly faster or slower than any other release, but in either case you won't want to be running X. the really nice thing about debian is that you can configure it to have only what you want right from the install (you don't even need the cd's actually). i'm not running any 486 machines currently, but i am running a copy of testing on a p75-something, which is able to host websites, dns, and mail for half a dozen (granted, small traffic) sites. just grab the appropriate root.bin and rescue.bin images, put the latter in first, and at some point it will ask you what you want to install. hth --sean On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:34:32AM -0800, John Floren wrote: > Hello > I am looking at installing Debian on my old 33Mhz 486 w/ 16MB of RAM, > and I am wondering which release to use. I want one that is featureful > but won't be too slow on my machine. I plan on downloading CD images on > another computer then installing them on the old computer. Any tips > would be great. > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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