Nitebirdz wrote:
> I seriously doubt you could fit the installation in just 40Mb. However,
> if you get a slightly bigger hard drive I see no problem.
I firmly agree about the disk space. And:
> I managed to run Linux on a 386 with 16 Mb of RAM and a 250 Mb hard
> drive not long ago.
Ayup. However...
> In any case, I'd recommend a small distribution such as Trinux
> (http://www.trinux.org) which fits in a floppy, especially if your friend
> is thinking about using the box as a router or firewall.
I dunno about this. I've been running Unix of some flavor at home
since around 1980--imagine what kind of system you could run on an 8086
Compaq portable clone! (Venix). Even today, I still have my mail
transfer and handling system running in the basement on a clone
386/DX-16 with 16Mb RAM and a couple of 200+Mb SCSI drives. It's still
chugging on Dell SVR4.2 Unix (ca. 1994)--and the box will move mail,
run X, compile gcc, and still let me read my E-mail, all at a very
tolerable speed.
I bought a replacement system in--gee, was it 1996?--because I was
*sure* this 24x7 box was going to die any day. 200Mhz Pentium, all
clone components, Redhat 5.0. It sat in wait, while I played with it.
The 386 is *still* running. It's time to upgrade the Redhat system.
Unless someone knows of a particular reason--like, current versions
require hardware not present on the '386 CPU--I categorically believe
that Linux will cheerfully do at least as well as SVR4 on a 386 with16
Mb RAM.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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