Andrew Smith wrote:

> > hihihi wrote:
> >
> >> Tom Diehl wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, hihihi wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>That leads me to another question..
> >> >>Red hat 7.2 uses a new file system, i believe.
> >> >>ext3 or something..
> >> >>When you do a upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, will the harddisk be
> >> >>converted to this new filesystem ??????
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >You get to choose if you want it to upgrade to ext3 or not. the
> >> >systems I have done so far I have upgraded all of my partitions to
> >> >ext3 and have had no problems what so ever with them. It is really
> >> >cool to see the system just come back up with no fsck after just
> >> >pushing the "big red button" (yea I know your not supposed to do it
> >> >but I just could not resist). No 10 minute fsck. Something I will not
> >> >miss. especially on my slower machines.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Great...
> >> Might be time to install 7.2 on my 486, which has redhat 5.1 now :-)
> >>
> >
> > I would not install it on a 486 it is too "fat" really should have a
> > minimum P3 500 - 256 RAM
> >
> > -Joshua
>
> Urban legend #6 !
>
> If you are running Linux to replace windows, and want everything on
> there that you run on windows then yes a 486 will be slow.
>
> If you are already running 7.1, then 7.2 should perform pretty much
> the same.
>
> The good thing about linux is, you can run it on a 386 if you really
> want to. Just don't expect to run every possible service and X-Windows
> very fast at the same time.
>
> -Cheers
> -Andrew

I'd like to hear any success stories of installing RedHat Linux 7.2 on a
386.



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