[thelist] linux hardware

David McCreath wrote:
> 
> Okay --
> 
> This is the week I stop crying wolf on Linux. My wife quit her job and we
> had to give back her laptop and now we're down to one computer at home(how
> eighties!). So I have an old Dell P100 that's got Win95 on it, and I'm going
> to install Linux, but I need some advice. It's got 32mb RAM, 500mb HD, no
> CD, no NIC, and no modem.
> 
> I'm going to install RedHat 6.0, probably the web server options, and
> StarOffice. So are the RAM and HD enough? RedHat's docs say you should have
> over 600mb of space on the HD, but I know people have installed it on less.
> So what's the deal on HD space? I don't have to install Apache and all that
> right now, I just thought I'd play around with it some.

No. StarOffice is fat fat fat.. weighing in at something like 100-200Mb
itself, a default RH install is around 450 as well, so you're SOL pretty
much :) Also, enlightenment(which comes with RH 6.0) is pretty fat
itself, and will take a good amount of RAM and a decent video card..

Sucks ehh?

> I KNOW that I can't use a Winmodem, but any reputable PCI modem should be
> okay, right? I'm using a USR 56k on my new Dell, and the RedHat installer
> picked that up just fine. Or should I go for an external?

Most PCI modems should be ok for ya. USR's work like budda.

.djc.