Okay I wish to breathe new life into old hardware by turning an old pc
into an email-checking-web-browsing-solitaire-playing machine.
First the bad news (the hardware)...
- 486DX 50Mhz
- the bios can't see partitions bigger than 512MB
- and it's running windows 95 (hehe)
What I want...
- a GUI with Mozilla (hopefully epiphany), Games, Gaim and XMMS
- I would like to use GNOME, but then again I would also like to be
relaxing on a beach with a drink in one hand a small team of experts
nearby working out ways they can be nice to me
I know linux will work just fine but what about X? Will X even run? If
so will XFCE run? (seeing as how gnome probably won't)
Oh and if that's not hard enough the bios can't see partitions bigger
than 512 MB. I've got a 3 gig and a 1 gig hard drive that I'm going to
cut into 500 MB pieces and install. So how do I install linux on a
system with 7 500MB partitions?
Also I'm thinking of using debian because it seems to be a pretty
minimal distro (I haven't played with it much except with knoppix
remastering)
So if anyone can help me with the project it would be.. uhm ...helpful
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