[Preston] RE: memory

[John]

RAM & HD should be sufficient hopefully processor power (less than your
spec) will be okay? Did you find response times to be acceptable both when
administering IPCop and using it to access the internet?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Field" <m.l.field@ntlworld.com>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] RE: memory


> At 20:45 06/11/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi Mathew,
> >
> >My IBM/Cyrix PR166 I believe is slightly faster than a pentium P166
> >(possibly rated as high as a P200 so I have been told but I don't know
for
> >certain). It should have 32MB Ram but although the BIOS reports 32MB
Windows
> >only sees 28MB so I am guessing that one of the two 16MB EDO Ram sticks
has
> >a duff 4MB chip on it??? There is also a 3GB hard drive... I had intended
to
> >use it as my IPCop machine....
>
> More likely that 4 MB is used by the video 'card'. Does it have on board
VGA?
>
> >Out of interest, I also have a Compaq Prolinea 590 machine (a 586
machine)
> >with 16MB Ram and a 600MB hard drive. Would this be sufficient to run
IPCop?
>
> Yes more than enough. I used to run Smoothwall on a Compaq with Pentium
> 133, 24MB, & 150MB Hdd.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthew
>