Can't you upgrade your RAM to at least 8MB!
Linux can be installed on a 386 with 4 MB of RAM(I am really doubt on this
) - but it will be terribly slow, not practical for production, and certainly not recommended. What experts recommends is at least a 486 and at least 16 MB of RAM for command line, and at least 32 MB for GUI.
Since you don't need such productivity you will be much happier with 386 and 8MB RAM.
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Originally posted by Neo
If you have a fast network connection, recommend you
go to
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ . Look in
the 'distributions' directory and pick one. Slackware
is easy to download using the WGET utility.
If you don't have a fast network connection or not
experienced in downloading large distributions, the
recommend you click on the RedHat 6.2 book on the
https://www.unix.com homepage and purchase book, CDROMs, etc
to install. The small price for the OS with documentation
and CDROM are well work the money.
We tend to do both. But when we need an new OS fast,
using WGET and sunsite work... but we have 764kbps
SDSL internet access.
Or you can download the Red Hat Linux operating system from ftp.redhat.com But, there are more than 700 RPMs taking up 540 MB and Red Hat FTP servers stay pretty busy.
[Edited by mib on 03-10-2001 at 08:15 AM]