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
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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.

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