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. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
