[AktiviX] Re: AktiviX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2

[Charlie Harvey]

Picture the scene, it's 12:00 on 5 Feb 2004, and aktivix-request at burngreave.ne says:
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| to go for. I do not want to spend a long time messing about with a tricky 
| install and dodgy hardware support but the processor speed rules out many of 
| the newer no hassel graphical install distros.
| 
| Any suggestions?
| 
| Pete
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Mandrake can do a text only or low res vga install. At the boot prompt type f1 
(that's from memory, so you probably wanna check) then type vgalo or (again my 
memory's not too clear here ) text. If you don't want too much faff on the 
install I'd recommend it. Course it's more faff to administer than debian, 
which also installs on pretty much anything...

I've found it to be fairly nice on low end hardware - for example we have a nat-
d/iptables firewall for a network of 29 people that runs on mdk9.1 on a pentium 
90 with 16Mb and a 400 meg hdd.

# df -ah /dev/hda1
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             416M  267M  129M  68% /
# cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
MemTotal:        16964 kB
# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e MHz -e vendor -e "model name"
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
cpu MHz         : 89.816

Charlie

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