[plug] Minimum spec's for Mandrake 9

[Leon Brooks]

On Friday 07 February 2003 03:04 pm, David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all you Mandrake guys out there... 8-)

> My brother was wanting to load up Linux on a spare computer he has to play
> with it, and check out what it's like.  The spec's on the hardware he has
> is:

> Pentium II (233 to 333 MHz) system with about 128 Mb RAM and between 7-13
> gig of hard-drive.

> I had planned to suggest Mandrake 9; I've been a redhat guy in the past,
> but with the UI of Redhat 8, I suspect it might be a bit sluggish;  Will
> the above spec's be sufficiently powerful to happily run Mandrake 9?

Yes. With a nice video card, it will even do stuff like transparent menus 
nicely. Do get the latest updates (including kernel) after you install it.

    urpmi.addmedia iiNet ftp://ftp.ii.net/linux/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS \
      with ../base/hdlist.cz
    urpmi.update iiNet
    urpmi --auto-select

I also dd the install CDs onto the drive and set them up as URPMI sources if I 
have the space; it's a great convenience on down the track.

Cheers; Leon