John, the more important question before you start upgrading ram and disk
space is what are you going to be using the machine for? I have a p200
with 32 megs of ram and an 800 meg hd, running my firewall and webserver,
considering my site is very lightly trafficked it's a very appropriate
machine for this task as it is.
It would not serve as a GUI workstation that well though. The vid card is
an old 1mb s3.
Linux Mandrake should run fine on any pentium. As usual check the hardware
on your machine against
what's compatible.
Cheers,
JD Smith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Should I?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Should I?
>
>
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you 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,
> > >
> > I'd say that would be BARELY enough drive space, and barely enough
> > RAM for KDE/X. I'd want to upgrade the RAM at least...
> > John
> >
>
> Yes, barely for ram, but adequate. Format the second disk to put the swap
> space in the /hd*1 partition, the fastest part of the disk - you'll be
using
> swap often for X Windows. You might want to look at another window
> manager/desktop that needs less ram.
>
> There is a lot of stuff you can dump after you do a minimal install. Look
in
> the comps file on the CD and see what is installed in the base that you
> don't need, then hunt it down and nuke it.Then add things as you need
them.
> Since you have another machine, it would be OK to delete the docs/ man
pages
> if you need the space.
>
> It sure would be great if "minimal install" was an option. Hint. Hint.
Hint.
>
> Hoyt
>
>
