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Hi,
I obtained potato CDs dated 7/18/2000, so they were probably not the
latest cycle 3 ones.
I had an old 486-33 with 8mb ram and a 120mb hard drive with slink
on it from last year (from 3/99 CDs). With a 16mb swap partition
and a 102mb root partition, at the start of the upgrade I had about
50mb used, and when I was done I have about 87mb used.
Following the upgrade instructions resulted in a properly upgraded
system. I don't remember any particular problems . . . it seemed to
work well. I don't have enough room on this machine to install
kernel source and compile, so I figured I would try the kernel package,
which is something I've never tried before. The kernel package worked fine.
Later I tried to install potato from scratch on this machine. I was
going to wipe the drive and do a clean install. Unfortunately, the
latest boot floppies won't start the install with only 8mb of ram (the
documentation says 12mb min), so I gave up.
Why screw around with this tiny machine? Just curious. I wanted to see
how the upgrade would go on this junk box before I start upgrading the
important machines.
Thought you might like to know . . .
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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard
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