From: "Giacomo Lacava" <g.lacava@gmail.com> To: man-lug@lists.manchester.ac.uk Subject: Re: [man-lug] Minimal Linux Distrib Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:24:34 +0000 If you don't need X, you can go for a heavily stripped-down Debian, Slackware or Gentoo... or if you feel like learning, there's always Linux From Scratch <ducking to avoid LUGradio flames>. cheers Giacomo On 06/12/06, Alban Pearce <A.Pearce@salford.ac.uk> wrote:I have a Old SFF Pc It's a Digital Box Up until The Novell / Microsooft deal to Fubar the GPL (see www.groklaw.net) it was my (Home) NetWare 4.11 server I have copied all the files off it so GOODBYE Novell ... So now the Difficult Bit What distro do I Use
Use Debian.................. It recognizes old hardware well. Michael Fothergill
It only needs to store mail and maybe ldap or ftp So I don't need X... The Hardware Spec Is AMD 586Dx4 100 66BogoMips WOW 32Mb EDO RAM Floppy ISA BUS NO PCI 3c509B network card Internal video mouse 2 ser par 20Gb Hdd (I found a newer disk) External DVD It will Plug on The Ide CABLE for initial Install Caveats the install has to boot from floppy There is no pci bus I think the Board is Pre PNP Why am I keeping it its only 8"x10"x2" ---------------------------------------------- http://lists.manchester.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/man-lug ManLUG WWW Pages: http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/-- Giacomo Lacava
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