The slackware suggestion makes a lot of sense. Especially considering the fact that it is the only distribution compiling packages with optimisations for i486 ! Most newer distributions will use optimisations for i686 at least which assumes pipeline structure, which simply will not work on a old machine. Using slackware and proceeding in a way Aditya suggests (install base and increment only what you need) should work best for you. On another note, Redhat is a poor choice for low end machines. Being an enterprise-geared distribution, it will take a lot of tweaking disabling daemons and kernel services like SE-Linux to get it speeding along on a Pentium with 64 MB RAM.
My 2 cents. Cheers, Manas -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
