How old of a system can I load Breezy?

MrKnisely mrknisely at mrknisely.is-a-geek.org
Sun Nov 13 21:47:58 UTC 2005


Kipton Moravec wrote:

>I have a Pentium 166 with 384M Memory and 5Gb Hard drive.  I was
>thinking of setting it up as a server to play with Apache and FTP, and a
>few other server type things.
>
>This is for playing, not for production, so I know it will be slow, and
>I don't care.
>
>I can't seem to load Breezy. Will it not load on this small of a system?
>I get Low Memory mode warnings, and it seems to be looping where it
>tries to load the network drivers.  (I think it is an old 3COM).
>
>It has not gotten to the point where I can partition the disk.
>
>I am beginning to think it will not work on a Pentium 1. What should I
>do?
>
>Kip
>  
>
That hardware should be perfectly fine for a server install.  I had a 
P-150 working just fine.  I was going to make it a mail server, but 
better hardware became available.

Mike K.




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list