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 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net alternatives: kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
