>> The system it will be running on is a 386 DX40 with 4 megs
>> ram (i CAN put more if it really needs it, but 4 was all i
>> had laying around, along with a handful of 256k's :) ), but
>> not sure of the hard drive yet - maybe 100 megs? and
>> probably MFM =)
>Linux will be close to useless as a server with 4 MB RAM and 100 MB disk 
space
> Why would you build a server with 100 MB disk space?
> While it is possible to tune Linux by hand to run in such constrained 
spaces,
>this is not a task for the beginner.  You are much better off starting out 
wit
> at least 8 MB RAM and 200 MB disk space, which will allow you to use the
> standard installation utilities.
This certainly depends on what kind of server he is imagining, does he want a 
webserver with 100MBs of pages, he obviously needs a bigger HD; but still, it 
is no problem to install the bare bones RedHat + Apache, for example, on a 
lot less than 100MBs.
-sH-
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