----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Should I?
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, John Connell wrote:
>
> > I was just wondering....I just became the "proud owner" of a GW2K P5-75
with
> > 32MB RAM, 2 HDD's 540MB and 420MB. I would like to install LM on it,
should
> > I or is it not up for the task? If not what distro would you experts
> > suggest? Thanks to you all,
> > John Connell
> >
> >
>
> It'll be noticeably slow but I think it should work out. If anything,
> Redhat 6.2 should work, along with Slack, Suse and any other Linux flavor
> that isn't optimized for >i586.
>
You will see some i/o speed improvement by using hdparm and autotune.
See my article at : http://www.linuxforum.com/articles
Hoyt
