Subj : unixs on a 386
To   : David Drummond
From : Warren Hrach
Date : Fri Dec 07 2001 01:04 am

David,
    With all the flack you have been getting over some info you posted on
Linux echo I would like to add a few words over on this echo. First of all I 
doubt C.A. even runs Linux just on a UNIX system at work or something.

Best way to handle C.A. is to not reply, I know it is hard because it makes one 
look like he/she has posted bad advice.

The whole thing about installing linux on an XT is a big waste of time. words 
and bandwith.

I would have just told an inquiring XT user to continue to use it and look 
around for a cheap 486 or better used box.

I recently bought a spare box that had a Pentium 75 running at 180 MHz with 32 
meg memory and a 6 gig hd.

I bought it from a local hardware guru that goes to swap meets, picks up 
working and non working systems and resurrects the good stuff.

That is what my spare box is, it had a bad hd and powersupply and he replace 
with a good 6gig he had and good p/s. and I got it for $50.

He even put win98 on it and when I went to install R.H. 7.1 it got the hd 
trashed because the cdrom I had for R.H. was a bad burn.

Anyway after wiping the hd and just changeing the bios to boot from cdrom i 
managed to get R.H. 6.2 installed with no problems and *NO* *DOS* !!! I even 
upgraded to R.H.7.1 slick as a vistle.

I am concerned about any newcomer to the Linux echo getting the idea that linux 
is just a bundle of trouble and will give up before even getting to ask for any 
information.

The worse thing is the moderator allows this to go on and on.

Warren Hrach, Moderator Linux_User echo.

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