A few questions

[Steve Holmes]

The 486 will make it but I would be concerned about the low memory.
Though if you allocate a big enough swap (16 or 32 megs) It might work ok.

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, John Gunn wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> Well still haven't install or even downloaded 8.0 of the slackware
> distribution of Linux but I have a few questions.  I finally found a box I
> can experiment with and is a 486 Compact with 16 megs of ram.
>
> I am going to use an old which is about 6 years western digital 3.1 gig and
> am wondering using western's utility to kind of pre-format the disk so that
> cmos can read the full 3.1 gig drive should I expect any difficulty with
> this utility getting in the way of the Slackware  and Speakup installation
> of Linux?
>
> Also can 1 use other distributions such as Red Hat Mandrake etc?
>
> Any help would be appreciated and if some of this is a little off topic,
> sorry.  smile
>
>
>
>
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