Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Damond Walker wrote: > In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old '386sx with 16 > megs of ram and a 200 meg drive. It worked...well sorta...if you could I have it on a 25MHz AMD 386 and it runs very nicely. RH5, and the system has 8M of ram and a 500M d

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-12 Thread Josh McNutt
Keith Dart said in Re: New Strategy for Linux at 11/Mar/1998 13:25:26. a good place to look for all that stuff may be http://www.onsale.com/computers.htm here is what i'd guess- $35-55 486 motherboard (with 486) $20-35 8 mb $25 3.5"drive $25-40 4X cd-rom drive $25-40 SVGA Video card

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into >

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
> >-Original Message- >From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: New Strategy for Linux > > >>Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff >before >>I find out it doesn't: > > >In short, y

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Damond Walker
-Original Message- From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Strategy for Linux >Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff before >I find out it doesn't: In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff before I find out it doesn't: 486SX/25 (I know it sucks, but I have it lying around in my house) 8MB RAM ('Cuz 16 would cost to much :o) Tseng ET4000 Video Card ('cuz I have one) 524 MB hard drive (hda): ('cuz I freed this up wh

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > >> As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux >> onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together >> this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into >> a 486 motherbo

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread James Boorn
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into > a 486 motherboard. I

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into > a 486 motherboard. I

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
I don't know how much it would cost...but I do know as long as your going to bother buying it you should try and find a way to have at least 16mb of ram. -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Li

New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into a 486 motherboard. I buy 8MB ram, and a 3.5" drive as well as a 4X CD-RO