[inbox] RE: lilo/grub

[Greg Neumann]

Well, on older system ... well actually ANY system! ;-) ...  my disto of 
choice is Slackware. I'm running Slack 9.1 w/ a 2.6.4 kernel (I usually 
download and "custom compile" the latest kernel) on a dual Pentium Pro 
200 system, 192 meg ram, 4 meg Matrox video card, Canopus Pure3d "pass 
through" card (recognized by the kernel, but not working in X because I 
can't find glide 2 drivers!) and it's working well for day to day stuff 
and light household server duty. I like Slackware because it uses the 
"BSD" style init scripts, the minimum system requirements are very low 
and it's much simpler for me to figure out how to change something. 
Also, I moved from DOS/Win3.x to Linux, so command line skill was always 
a must. SUSE 6.1 will probably work, but I've never tried SUSE other 
than a boot-from-cd version of 6.3. I'd put Slackeware on an old 
Pentium, but that's my preference, because I can install GNOME, KDE or 
nothing as I choose, and the installer cares not a bit. I've actually 
had a 486/dx4 100 VLB SVGA card running Slackware and KDE. NOT your 
blazing-fast system, but it ran StarOffice 5.2 well enough to get a 
daughter through 5 years of college w/ 2 bachelor's degrees. :-D 
CyberSource or Bob Meyer could probably give you better advise about 
SUSE. CyberSource would be a good place to check for drives, too. I do 
this for fun, they do it to eat!
-Greg

TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
> Hi, Greg
>  
> I'm using SCSI as well, and its an older system. IBM PC Server 315 
> So after reading min system requirements. I have Mandrake 7.0 laying around here so I think I'll install it on this system. Its an Pentuim Pro 200Mhz (1) 128mb ram and a 4mb Video Card. So I think the latest and greatest will not work anyway. Also this system will have only Linux on it so I need not worry about Lilo, but was just interested as to the groups opinion. I will be installing Linux on a few systems, some older and some newer. 
>  
> By the way, do you think SuSE 6.1 Full retail version will do ok on a Pentium 1 mmx 200Mhz? 4mb video 128+ ram? I have SuSE sitting around as well. Oh...where can you get GOOD scsi drives here locally WNY reasonable! SCSI-3. I need one more Seagate ST34371N to complete this system. 
>  
> Thanks, tHecActUsKid