A few questions

[Kerry Hoath]

16 megs is enough for console stuff unless you fire up emacs.
It is X that chews ram, and the GUI fluff in Redhat as well.
Disable all of that and 16-megs should be fine if you have 16-32m swap. You'll
run out of ram if you don't have swap and you try to compile a kernel.
Now 8 megs, that's evil with a 2.2.x or 2.4.x kernel.
I remember booting 0.99p5 up on 2 megs of ram and having it crawl but run in 4 megs.
Ah those were the days.

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:51:25PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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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