[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B) writes:
>I've got the courage up to get a box up and running with the
>ax25 stuff in it to operate packet radio a la JNOS. I have a
>slackware 3.5 disk and Red Hat 5.2.
>I understand there are some library problems to consider. Which
>one is preferred? I know the RH boots up and installs fairly
>easily, but not sure if the library problem is such that I should
>stick with Slackware.
>I plan to load this into an old 386-SX box 4 meg ram, 40 meg HD.
>It's just for packet, so don't need to load too much into the box.
4 Mb RAM should work, but it will be very slow (especially when swapping
on the slow 40 Mb disk). 8 Mb will do the job better. Take an old
distribution if you want to run it on 40 Mb. All recent distributions will
take >= 100 Mb.
73,
Gerhard.
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