On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:15:00AM -0400, russell simmons wrote: > I am a newbie, and I have a base install of slink running on a 486 dx33 > with a 210 mb hd and 12 mgs of ram. I am going to network it with my > main box soon. This box is a dual boot windoz/linux install, 166 mmx > overclocked to 200 with a 5.2 gb hd (1gb for linux), and 96 mgs of ram. > I was running mandrake 6.0, but I have rh 6.1 at present. I > want to replace it with debian. Would slink be the best choice for > compatability issues, or would potato be the wiser choice.
That sounds really bloody close to a box I worked on last summer. Compaq, by any chance? I don't know that the distribution will matter much. I believe I rolled slink out on mine, but don't see any reasons why potato wouldn't have worked. The main issue(s) are that you've got a really gimpy system -- it hasn't got much CPU, memory, or disk, so you're going to have to be judicious with what you put on it. This was when I realized the value of Debian -- it was *very* easy to add and remove packages, and I had to do this frequently (eg: offloading emacs to be able to build a kernel <g>). What are you planning on using the box for? If a firewall, have you considered the Linux Router Project (http://www.linuxrouter.org/). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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