"Karl F. Larsen" wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Your in for a lot of trouble. I do not think Red Hat 5.2 is going
> to load well on such a modest computer. It is smaller than my old laptop!
> To load it you will need a floppy disk version. You need to go back to
> slackware 3.4 and only load the bare system. It will be very slow and not
> much fun.
>
> Spend a little money and get a new motherboard and 32 meg of ram
> and a 4 gig hard drive.
Hi,
I think that if you don't intend to run X-windows, a 386 is just fine
for simple packet use.
(X won't fit on the small HD anyway...)
Just don't plan to use a soundmodem in this configuration. And maybe a
Baycom modem on the serial port is already too much to ask from this
system?
I've been using Slackware since version 3.2. It works just fine on my
old slow systems.
Your Slackware 3.5 should work just fine.
If you don't have a CD-ROM drive in this old system, the only problem
might be that since version 3.5 only the a- and n-series disks will fit
on 1.44 Mb floppies.
If you dont have a CD-ROM drive you can temporarily hook-up a drive out
of another PC, or mount a network card and do a nfs-install.
73, ./Arno pe1icq
