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Re: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue
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Have had the problem with rejected memory upgrades. I thought it was
just the mad cow. I finally got a Linux system to work on a machine
and even use the x-window graphics. It's a 4.5 Redhat disk and I have
to play games just to get it to do Mozilla. This is not something that
someone can simply do in his or her sparetime. I know the equipment that
I keep pressing into service is archaic but I do not have spare change
in the type of money to accommodate a brand new system.
bs
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Art Alexion wrote:
>
>
> 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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