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.
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