Installation of Red Hat

[jludwig]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 08:33, duncan brown wrote:
> Fuzzy,
> you definitely need to get more ram for these machines, 64 is usable, but
> they're going to be nearly unusable.  i recommend putting an additional
> 128mb module into these machines to bring them up to 192 (or more) or
> they're going to be constantly going into the swap file and making the
> machine nearly useless (and drastically shortening the lifespan of your
> hard drives)  you should be able to pick them up for 10 to 15 pounds at a
> second-hand computer store (estimated given the exchange rate from us to
> uk, the dollar shall rise again! =])
> 
> chances are that these machines can only handle 128mb sticks, so avoid
> anything larger unless you KNOW it'll work.
> 
> -d
> 
> michael furse said:
> > We have upgraded our hardware. I am endeavouring to recycle all of our
> > old workstations (500 Mhz Celerons with 64mb RAM)  in order to offer
> > them to colleagues at no cost. Those remaining (and there should be a
> > few) are due to be given to a local state infants school. I wish to
> > install Linux and other open-source software on these machines, and
> > ideally to remove the existing W98 installation and accompanying files.
> > I have downloaded Linux 9 from Fedora but my attempts to get it running
> > have so far been a spectacular failure. Any constructive advice,
> > preferably based on previous experience, would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Fuzzy
> >
> >
> >
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