I'm thinking of installing redhat 7.2, since a book that I bought to learn linux contains it. I was wondering if is a good idea to install it with minimal install on a 400-500 mb hard drive running on a Pentium 100 machine? From what I have read in the manual, the minimal install is around 350mb's. I'm debating whether to do it or not considering I have Win95 install and I rather not install it on my computer that I am on now. Is it a good idea or bad idea to do so?
It's never a bad idea to install Linux Well a minimal install will fit, but remeber, you'll also need a Swap, which will take up (RAM amount) x 2 on your drive. Unless you for some reason have 512 MB on that system as that is the safe cut off point. Otherwise you'll be lagging out like crazy. Also with a minimal install, you won't be able to play with everyting, not sure if a minimal install will get you all that your looking for, but it will stil be an experience in learning. I'd say go for it (if the Swap isn't a problem), but just realize that you may not get as much out of it if you could get a bit more HDD size. Unless of course you were open to other distros ? As Redhat is VERY bloated. Something like Gentoo, LFS would be th ebest for that computer, and would be a huge learning experience, Slackware could probably fit in there pretty good too. Cheers mate.
lol, yeah I don't think the gui would run smoothly under a 100mhz machine. I'm hoping to instead swap my parents 150mhz comp with a 4 gb hdd for my linux machine and give them my computer. I'm planning to build another computer in august (Abit NF7-S v2.0, AMD XP2500+, and alot of other goodies ). Although I do want to learn linux now, I'll have to wait until august. Until then, I'll read the linux book I bought with the 7.2 cds I recieved. Thanks for the help!
