Hello, Morse!
I am setting a nice box for myself in a very limited system. It is an AMD
586 (no more than a 5x 486) with 8 MB of RAM, a VGA card, an IDE 541 MB HDD,
and a 48x IDE CD-ROM, and a US Robotics 14400 bps internal modem. Actually,
everything came out from the deepest parts of my closet... (Just need a
monitor. I guess an old monocrome one will do, if I can get one
somewhere...). If I add a zip drive with the /home/my_account in a 100 MB
zip, that would be great!
I am going to set it up with Emacs as main working environment. It will do
great for running Octave, C/C++ programming, email, www, and Latex text
processing, everythinin text mode. As this is going to be a stand alone
machine, this system will do nicely.
I suggest you to install RH 5.2 (custom) unselect all extra packages, and
select individually what you need. Then remove services & packages you don't
need, recompile the kernel (if you know how to, else, it is a nice
experience to learn! =) ), and eliminate other unneeded stuff (for instance,
more than two virtual consoles in my system is a waist of resources).
And, if you are really worried about security in such a system, make the
adecuate upgrade work.
There are a couple of mini-HOWTOs you would like to read: Small Memory,
Savin Space and Upgrade.
BTW, you can even run X in a 486/66 16 MB. Just choose an small window
manager, and configure it nicely (ICEwm or twm will do fine). You may
install xfm and some other glitches. But, personally, I would stay using
emacs instead! =).
-Manuel.
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: Lunes, 15 de Mayo de 2000 06:42 p.m.
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Re: RH on a 386?
>
>
> I am going to try something like this with a 486DX2 66 with
> 16 megs of RAM
> and a 240 meg hard drive.
> I want to do a minimum install of RH 5 or 6. then I will sell
> try to sell
> it for 75 or a hundred bucks as a basic Linux box. No X of
> course and a 40
> meg swap file.
>
> Question:
> When doing such a small install what should I choose to install ?
> thanks
>
> morse
>
>
> At 06:43 PM 5/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 09 May 2000, Jim Baxter wrote:
> > > Hi Gang
> > >
> > > I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a
> 386 with 32 mb
> > > memory and 40mb hard disk.
> > > Can't say why he wants to but I suspect it is some old junk he is
> > wanting to
> > > get some use out of.
> > >
> > > Does any one think it can be done and still do anything
> like run a browser?
> > >
> > > I bet there is no CD on it.
> > >
> > >
> >Sure it *should* be doable. Not real fast, but it should
> >work. :-) If there's no CD in it, or it's a proprietary CD
> >drive (which linux may or may NOT support during install)
> >you can always use FTP access or NFS access to install
> >(preferably over a LAN! <G>)
> > John
>
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