Re: Linux Loaded on 486...what now

Patrick,

Please understand this is not meant to discourage you but you will not be
happy with a 486 and Linux. I have spent a huge amount of time trying to
get Linux, rtlinux, and emc to run on a 486. IT AIN'T WORTH IT! I know
others have done it, but your wasting your time. Used pentium machines
in the 100, 133, 166, range can be had for $200 - $300 range for complete
systems and they will work. A 486 will work fine in the text console mode
but will slow to a crawl in xwindows. Add rtlinux and emc and you will fall
asleep waiting for screens to load. I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but
someone needs to say it - YOU NEED A PENTIUM YOU RUN EMC.

I now have Linux, rt, and emc running on a pentium 100 and a 133. Runs great
and quite usable. I loaded KDE on the 100mhz machine and it works fine.

Bob


At 08:31 PM 7/28/99 -0400, you wrote:

>From: "Patrick Huss" <patrick@...>
>
>In looking over the packages I need to add to equal the workstation install,
>I've decided the best option would be to just go back and do a workststion
>install. The question I have is this - all of the MANY instructions I've
>read on LINUX installation recommend partitioning the disk something like
>/100M , /usr 200M , /usr/src200M , etc.; what then is the drawback(s) of
>using the very basic filestructure created by Workstation install? Also,
>when you do partition the disk and do a custom install, how does linux
>distribute the installation? In other words, do the various packages and
>components get placed on their respective partitions automatically? Do you
>have to relocate them later?
>Patrick
>