Hi Luggers,
I have an old 386 m/c with 8mb ram and 250 mb hdd, trl monitor (cgp display card), SN 2000 ISA LAN card. can i install GNU/Linux on it i have RHL5.0 (which came with PCQ) or will i have to go for an older kernel. How do i configure the display card and the LAN card ? I may put a 630 mb or 1.2 gb hdd so that i can make a complete install. What about startx can i use any GUI which will support it.
Please send me your suggestions.
Noel
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Hi Luggers,
I have an old 386 m/c with 8mb ram and 250 mb hdd, trl monitor (cgp display card), SN 2000 ISA LAN card. can i install GNU/Linux on it
Follow up to my previous post:
The SN2000 card is NE2000 ISA compatible, so configure it as a NE2000 ISA card.
The RH 5.0 distro will do fine.
Read my earlier post for dtls.
Krishnan
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Sometime on Jul 28, noel seq assembled some asciibets to say:
I have an old 386 m/c with 8mb ram and 250 mb hdd, trl monitor (cgp display card), SN 2000 ISA LAN card. can i install GNU/Linux on it i have RHL5.0 (which came with PCQ) or will i have to go for an older
You can use any kernel, the kernel is not a problem. What you really want to do is get a good distro, and in my experience, Slackware is the best for small harddisks. The PCQ slackware that came out in '96 worked on a 300MB partition. We had it running on a 486 with 16MB RAM though, but that shouldn't make a difference.
kernel. How do i configure the display card and the LAN card ? I may put a 630 mb or 1.2 gb hdd so that i can make a complete install. What about startx can i use any GUI which will support it.
Don't worry about X. It may work, but with and old machine, you should really be looking at experimenting.
Philip
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