Re: newbie nerd

1997-04-12 Thread Ralph Winslow
Seth Reinosa wrote: > > Lets say there was this guy building a 486 computer for a church intranet > and he wanted to run Linux. > Would he : > A)JUST LOAD LINUX OR: If he already has his Debian Install boot, Ramdisk, and 3 base install diskettes, he could just start offf with loading Debian linux

Re: newbie nerd

1997-04-12 Thread Geoff R Deasey
> Lets say there was this guy building a 486 computer for a church intranet > and he wanted to run Linux. > Would he : > A)JUST LOAD LINUX OR: What are you going to us this machine for ? If you are going to use it for a web server for the intranet, just load linux. If you have some other purp

RE: newbie nerd

1997-04-12 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would just run Linux. You could use DOS to originally get the install disks. If you already have them why not just use linux? As far as the CPU. The system isn't upgraded since there's more to a Pentium than the CPU. The CPU may be a Pentium but the board

newbie nerd

1997-04-12 Thread Seth Reinosa
Lets say there was this guy building a 486 computer for a church intranet and he wanted to run Linux. Would he : A)JUST LOAD LINUX OR: B)LOAD DOS FIRST THEN LINUX and can a soldered CPU be unsoldered by a proand upgraded to lets say a 586 or higher? This guy has no clue what is going on. <[EMAIL