Re: Hi & Distro Recomendation for newbie

Douglas McIntosh wrote:

>Thanks foar the tip. I need something for rescue and file transfer in
>the dedicated computers in my lab. These have all of 8 Mb of memory and
>Knoppix won't run. Likewise Gentoo. If the early versions of Windows
>will run with 8 Mb why won't Linux???

Hmm ... that's a pretty small footprint in which to put an OS that
is currently maintained and patched. The installation procedure
pre-2.0 was notoriously newbie-damaging, but you might try NetBSD,
as it's a great fit for your hardware and the 2.0 install might be
more newbie-friendly.

 From http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/hardware.html:

"The minimal configuration for a NetBSD/i386 system requires 4M of RAM
and about 40M of disk space. For a full installation (including source
and X11), at least 8M of RAM and 200M of disk space are recommended."

So you get an OS version that's currently maintained and that fits in
the space you're describing. The ISOs are in the usual places, or

http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/cdroms.html#officialiso

And "eventually", the guys at bsdupdates.com are supposed to come out
with binary patching for it, so you won't need much CPU horsepower to
keep current with minimal effort. (It looks like it's probably on their
back burner, though.)

What processors do these boxes have?

-royce

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