Re: Linux Loaded on 486...what now

What about a pentium 75. Will that work?
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bachman <bobach@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux Loaded on 486...what now

>From: Bob Bachman <bobach@...>
>
>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
>>
>
>
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