On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:30:38PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I've decided to finally give Slackware a try (about 5 years after hearing > about it...). > I have a 486 w/12MB of RAM and will probably end up with a 340MB HDD. I want > to set it up as a web server. (before you all shout out that 'you need more > memory than that!'; remember what it used to be like, before memory was > cheap.. it's not going to be a high-performance box, and I don't care.) > > is there any way to install Slackware via FTP? the only install methods I > see are floppy, CD, and NFS. > > also, should I grab the latest slackware-current stuff; or is 7.1 good > enough for the moment? > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list I'm running a couple of web servers (thttpd) on a 486-DX4 with 16MB of memory and a few small hard drives. You shouldn't have much problem, once you get past the install. -- Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us home: 952-934-4851 Eden Prairie, MN 55346 fax: 952-937-9832