Subject: ALR machine and Linux From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 12:31:11 PDT
My workstation at work is an ALR 386sx-16, one of the 20CX models with
the 386 upgrade board. It has a Tseng 4000 video card, 5Mb RAM and
a 130Mb Maxtor IDE. I can probably clear out about 40-50Mb of disk
space for installing Linux. The network card is an SMC Plus Elite
(wd8003).
Questions:
1) Is this enough space for Linux and X11? Enough memory?
2) Has twm or vtwm been ported to Linux yet?
3) Any known problems with the above hardware?
My intent is to have a dual-boot setup on my workstation. When in
Linux, I'd be running X, so that I could use the DOS programs remotely
from my supervisor's 486 w/32Mb (I do this now with DESQview/X - they
reside on a Novell file server: a customer database, cc:Mail, other
stuff).
Any chance of doing NFS to some of the other UNIX boxes on our
network? Any chance of mounting a Novell server drive (IPX or Netbios)?
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[] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
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