linux on old hardware?

[ccb at valinux.com]

Hi Ken -

   If these machines are pentium class machines with 32 MB or more RAM
and 500 MB disks or larger there's generally nothing out of the ordinary
installing them.  The same hassles apply:

  are there drivers for the boards in the box?
  do the boards require special dos-based config utils?

Linux generally ran very well on pentium class machines (P75-P233).
Many of the shine when you have 64MB RAM and 2.1 to 8.4 GB hard
drives.  Some can't do drives bigger than 8.4.  Even better on this
class of machine is old SCSI drives...


ccb


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