Mark Hensler — Wed, 01 May 2002 19:51:58 +0000

thanks guys

mairving — Wed, 01 May 2002 11:27:54 +0000

It all really depends upon what you are planning to do with it. If you are planning to run KDE or gnome, forget it. But it will run very nicely without the gui. I have a Pentium 100 32M RAM with no hard drive that runs quite well as a router using Linux. I would just get an older version around 6.2 or RedHat and it should work fine. I tend to prefer Slackware and my webserver at home runs Slack 7.2 on a P-200 with 64M.

Wil — Wed, 01 May 2002 08:40:14 +0000

Hi Mark!

I would try out Debian => http://www.debian.org/ It is based on Linux and they are very similar but it's not technically Linux. It's what a lot of hosting companies use as it's very powerful and stable as a server. I love it! And you can pick and mix your package to only have the things you need, so you can start with a small installation - RedHat tens to throw everything at you which chokes a lot of older machines.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 01 May 2002 06:36:16 +0000

hmm... the mandrake gave me an error when trying to run
D:\dosutils\autorun.exe

So now I'm using dosutils/rawrite.exe to make a floppy with images/cdrom.img. Getting ready to boot that floppy.
....
success: I've got boot, and the install is running

But I still want to try other versions of unix/linux.