Re: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Bob Schwier wrote:

> Okay, here is another question.
> Do either CentOS or Whitebox handle legacy equipment and small hard drives
> or are they like Fedora or Redhat 8+, requiring speed and space.
>  

I need to find that out, also, as the machine I am considering upgrading 
is a Compaq with a 566 celery CPU, 64 MB ram, and an existing 10 GB hard 
drive.  I can add a new hard drive, but after 4 failed attempts at 
different brands of memory upgrades, it looks like I'm stuck with 64 
MB.  Compaq claims that the machine takes generic PC133 SDRAM, but it 
has failed to recognize the 4 different chips I have tried to install.  
The price of buying RAM from Compaq is more than half the cost of a new PC.

So, my questions about the distros presently available to me -- RH 8, 
Slackware 9, Mandrake 9.1 and BSD 4.3 -- should have been couched in the 
context of what will run on my machine.  That is sorta the reason I was 
looking at Gentoo.

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