Hi, On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:23:28PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, ... > question is: 2.2.x kernels or 2.4.x? i'd tend for the latter, but i > don't know is that's harsher on the hardware and needs more space, or > not...
I would go with 2.2 since it is probably less resource hungry. Besides real strength of 2.4 are SMP and USB which you do not have for sure. If you do not want to spend more memory, slink and 2.0 kernel may be even better. I have one IBM 486DX4-50MHz 12MB as terminal and it booted OK with Potato/Kernel2.2 (used as gateway at one point but now unused) Just do not try to start X. (Especially with E.) It is too slow. All console apps are actually fast. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
