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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
