Re: About 386 with 8mb RAM

["Gustavo J Monopoli" <g.monopoli@biosidus.com.ar>]

I'm Sorry, I'll unsubscribe from this list.

Riley I'll send an email to your personal address.


Thks.




                                                                                            
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Hi Gustavo.

> Dear members, I'm new on the list.

> I've a 386 with 8mb Ram, I've downloaded the Tiny Linux
> "tiny.seul.org" who is a Slackware 2.6, I guess. I could install it
> easy, but now I don't know what to do to setup the X windows version
> "graphical version ok ?". In that computer I don't have CD so, I
> don't know what archives I must donwload to start the version with
> windows, I only have 3½ diskette . Can someone help me ?

Somebody probably can, but it's unlikely to be on this list. The
Linux-8086 list specialises in the ELKS operating system, which is
basically a version of Linux for sub-386 processors.

I don't know TinyLinux myself, so can't comment specifically on that. I
run Red Hat Linux almost exclusively here, so my comments are biased
towards that simply because it's the one I have experience of. However,
given that, here's my comments on your hardware.

If you can upgrade your RAM to 12M, you will be able to install Red Hat
Linux 5.2, and with 16M you can grab Red Hat Linux 6.2. Both come with
X-Windows as standard, and will install it for you. Although a 386 is
very definitely underpowered for X-Windows, it WILL run on it, although
it'll be slow and you'll need to allow for plenty of swap space, most
preferably in a separate partition as that's how the Red Hat installer
prefers it.

You don't say how large the hard drive is, so these figures may not be
appropriate, but if you want to run X-Windows, you should allow for at
least 256mb of swap partition on a machine with less than 32mb of RAM.

If you wish to email me off-list with more details of your system, I'll
advise you further, but NOT on this list where the subject is very much
off-topic.

Best wishes from Riley.





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