>===== Original Message From "Anthony 'Evil Twin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >I have a Compaq Prolinea 466. I haven't figured out the processor speed >yet. But there's 16MB of memory, a 400-odd MB hard drive. And a 3-1/2" >floppy. > >My 5-year old nephew has some educational games that can run on Windows >3.1. > >Would it be worth it for me to install Linux on the machine to run his >games? I'd have to get a CDRom, sound card and speakers. What would I >need installed on the machine? Could I make it easy enough for a 5-year >old to start it up and shut it down? > >Thanks, > >Tony - > >-- >Evil Twin - one_spike
I had a similar box that I gave to my 9-year old nephew. I tried to install Linux on it, but with the lousy display it had and the lack of drive space &tc, I just gave up and returned it back to Win95. However, it did have a larger hard drive than what the BIOS or Windows would recognize (by about 125MB or so), so I went ahead and partitioned that last bit and installed a minimal Debian system on the "extra" drive space, Just In Case.... > the Man, the Myth, the Legend in His Own Mind - //~____/ ~\\ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\~ \ ~// > one_kill! > >disclaimer - 'Evil Twin' is a nickname, the big ugly graphic on the right > is a volleyball. The 'spike' and 'kill' are volleyball-related. > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
