On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Aquarius wrote:
I'd like to build a Linux install on a machine I have, an old IBM PS/2-70, which has 8MB of memory, 160MB of HD space, and is a 386.
I had linux running on a 16mb 386 with a 400mb disk - slow and painful, yes, but it worked. I didn't bother with X though.
Am I vastly over-reaching the capabilities of the machine?
Probably ;-)
o X in 8MB, ouch. Is this vastly unlikely?
Swap city, I suspect. On a slow machine with a slow disk, there will be much pain.
o Shortage of HD space in general -- will I get all that lot into 160MB less swap?
Probably, but it will be REALLY tight. You should count on having just nothing else on that machine...
o It only has a floppy drive
Any spare ISA slots you could lob a network card in? You could then install across the network. Option 2 would be to borrow a CDROM temporarily, assuming you have a spare IDE channel you can plug it into.
since I now have a daughter (born Monday evening, 11.12pm)
Congrats! What's she called? (What's the female equivalent of "Linus"? :-)
so I may try and put this plan into action that day :)
Probably a good idea...
Andrew.
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