Hi Brian
> 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.
Unfortunately, you'll need to upgrade both the RAM and the hard drive
to get RedHat to install, although the RAM's not a problem once the
install's complete.
I use RedHat myself, having a mixture of RH 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 on
different machines, and as a general rule, RedHat needs a minimum of
6M of RAM to install, and to run on a system with only 4M of RAM on
it, needs at least 16M of swap space, which would only leave you with
24 Megs free for everything else...
I'm not sure where you are, but if there are any computer dealers
around that do upgrading onsite, ask them if they'll sell you an old
300M or so drive (the local one sells those for GBP 20.00 a time),
then put that in and set Linux up on it...
For reference, my packet radio system is a 386dx/25 based Compaq box
with 4M of RAM and a 350M hard drive. It's set up with a 10M MSDOS
partition to hold the setup utilities (being EISA it's not got any ROM
setup), then 70M for a Linux Swap partition, then the rest for RedHat
5.0, and it works fine...
Best wishes from Riley.
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