[KLUG Members] Command line only pc to learn unix

[Wesley Leonard]

Hehe... it'll work--but RedHat might not.  You might want to find one of the
mini-distros or even a floppy distribution.

Anyway, for installation purposes (if you decide to install on the hard drive) I
would recommend removing the hard drive and putting in a faster machine, doing
the install, and then putting it back in the 486...

l8er

Paul VandenBosch wrote:
> 
> I am working through some reference books on linux and want to learn the unix
> language.  In order to be able to experiment with partitioning, filesystems
> and generally use commands that might cause problems on my daily use machine,
> I was thinking of getting one of the tired old pc's out of the office
> junkyard and setting it up with linux and using it as a command line only (no
> GUI) machine for learning purposes.
> 
> I found one at work that is pretty minimalist.  8M RAM, 66 Mhz 486 DX2, 325
> MB HD, modem, floppy, no CD.  Thats it.
> 
> For the purpose of learning unix, is it worth my time to try to get this
> machine running linux?  I would just want a very basic text only system,
> maybe not even a mouse.   It would be something that I could try out commands
> and make mistakes on and not lose anything valuable.
> 
> Thanks!
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