Re: [Sheflug] LINUX on a P75, 16 Mb ram, 814 Mb HD, No CDROM,

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how easy it is to install Suse or Red Hat for this
> > circumstances, but somebody else might help? It looks like a decent
> > sysmte (only a tad slow for rendering 3D stuff :D).
> 
> System spec. looks fine. Dunno 'bout the big Hat, but SuSE I'm sure does
> installs over SLIP or something similar - so you'd really need another Linux
> box to make it Well Easy. Other way: nick the hard drive out of your current
> main machine, put the diddy one in and install linux onto it. Transplant
> brain back into the patient and voila.....
> 

 I`ve got a P75 with 16Mb RAM called noodles that has been up 11 weeks 4
days 18 hours 32 minutes (oh, yeah!) running RedHat with a total of
810Mb of drive space across two drives...about 200Mb spare.


 It`ll run X not too badly. There is a lot more junk on the machine than
I really needed to put on, but I`m fairly impressed.

 I actually installed directly from a CDROM I yanked from another
machine, however it is possible to install via ftp from another machine,
with a boot floppy to start it all off.


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