Hello

[Wu, Hu-Hwa]

How small of a hard drive can you install RH 6.2 on ?? 

or FREE BSD for that matter ??

-Hu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel R . Kilbourne [mailto:drk@voyager.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: Mike Rambo
> Cc: jtuma@ia4u.net; linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: Hello
> 
> 
> I personally have never tried linux of any flavor on hardware 
> that minimal,
> but I had FreeBSD 4.x running like a champ on a 386 with 4 MB RAM.
> 
> Have you considered/would you consider BSD versus Linux?
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Rambo extolled:
> > Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > 
> > > jtuma@ia4u.net writes:
> > > 
> > > >     I'm interested in using some form of Linux on a 
> 486DX2-66 with 8 meg
> > > > to be an internet server on my projected home network.  
> I'm told the 486
> > > > is adequate for this purpose - I'm not interested in a 
> fancy GUI - just
> > > > want to be able to dial up the net and feed it to my 
> network.  I'd
> > > > appreciate any advice from anyone - my Linux knowledge 
> is very limited,
> > > > but I'm interested in learning.  I understand I just 
> missed an install
> > > > fest in December, but could make one of your Sunday 
> night meetings -
> > > > please advise.  Thank you very much.
> > > 
> > > I'd start by installing a minimal distribution--perhaps Debian
> > > without selecting very many packages--then installing pppd and
> > > diald and setting up masquerading.  There is lots of information
> > > on diald in its documentation and on masquerading in the
> > > IP-Masquerading HOWTO.  I also have written up a brief
> > > description of what can be done on my website; check it out at
> > >         http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/writings/index.html
> > > --
> > > "Writing is easy.
> > >  All you do is sit in front of a typewriter and open a vein."
> > > --Walter Smith
> > 
> > ...you don't even need diald anymore as the pppd daemon has 
> had demand
> > dial support added.  It's much easier than diald too...
> > 
> > Ben's right about the minimal system too.  With only 8MB of ram you
> > probably don't want to even think about using a GUI as you'd get old
> > waiting for it to load plus it'd probably be quite 
> unpleasant to use.
> > 
> > Many others in the group can recommend a debian version, though I
> > suspect it'd be whatever is the most recent stable version. 
>  If you look
> > at RedHat you'd probably be best off to avoid the newest 
> 7.0 version. 
> > Get 6.2 instead and apply all the updates.  We have a 
> couple dozen 6.2
> > boxes that run very trouble free.  Version 7.0 can't say 
> that from what
> > I've read.
> > 
> > I'd avoid Mandrake on the hardware you have listed.  If you 
> could use a
> > GUI Mandrake might be the easiest to use after installing 
> but without
> > the GUI tools it's not much different than RedHat and it is 
> usually a
> > much bigger install for little or no significant gain 
> otherwise as all
> > the bells and whistles are GUI oriented.
> > 
> > My 2 cents 8-).
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Rambo
> > mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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