Old Pacard Bell box

[Janina Sajka]

Sounds to me like your PB will take linux just fine. I would chuck those 
old $H 6.1's, though. 7.2 is the current RH release, and you may as well 
get current.

Besides, there's been a lot of news here about accessible installing. 
Perhaps you haven't heard if you haven't been around? Bill Acker has 
tweaked the stock RH install to make it accessible with speakup. We call 
it the Speakup Modified Redhat distribution, and its online at 
www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat.


 On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, BTBG wrote:

> Hi listers,
> I've been on the list before but it's been a couple years probably.
> 
> I have an old Packard Bell box. I no longer have the recovery CD and am
> having trouble finding a replacement.  It has been a good door stop and dust
> collector but now I've been wondering about running linux on it.
> 
> Sorry, I don't have the model number handy. It has a AMD K6 with about
> 366Mhz. 64 MB RAM. 6GB hard drive.  Don't know if the riptide sound
> card/modem still work. I have a DoubleTalk I can put into it.
> 
> Will it handle linux?  I have a box set of RedHat 6.1 that includes boot
> floppy and manuals.  I have moved a couple times since I bought it and will
> have to dig through some boxes to see if I can find the RedHat disks and
> stuff.  My son is using the computer up in his room at the moment just for
> playing a couple old games.
> 
> Any better, quicker, or easier ways to get the Packard Bell loaded with
> linux?  I need to have it talk to me.
> 
> from
> Keith H.
>  card
> 
> 
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