I am a long time computer and electronics person, but just starting in the
Linux world. Kai Schulte's comment
"The 2MB system is not much fun to work with, of course, but 8MB are plenty
for a little service machine (mine has 2 modems, ISDN, SCC-card, Ethernet,
2 plip lines, and acts as answering machine and mail server for a couple
of people)."
Sounds exactly like what I want to do to 'get my feet wet' and learn Linux.
I have an old Dell 486 25MHz 8Mb with two 1 GB hard drives. I started an
installation of SuSe Linux and all went well until I had to figure out what
packages I needed to load since the 2 GB is way too small to do a full
install. I would like to configure it to do what Kai's machine is doing and
plug into my Win95-SR2 network with the other two "big" machines. I would
really like it to be an answering machine, fax machine, print spooler, two
multi-PPP modems (one 56K and one 28.8K), Ethernet, firewall, and DOS
emulator (to run a compiler for PIC programs). There will only be one
user - me.
I have two questions:
1. Is the little 486 box too small/slow to be useable for anything or can I
do some or all of the above listed things with it?
2. If it is useable, would someone be kind enough to give me some
assistance on what I really need to load and what I can drop?
Thanks for the bandwidth. You can reply to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to reduce clutter on the list, if you wish.
Regards,
Ron
KC5ODM
