I installed Redhat Linux 6.2 standard on the slave HD(1.2 GB) of my 486/dx-2/66 machine with 16 MB RAM. I have Windows 95 on Primary HD. I boot Linux from Floppy. My problem is Linux GUI runs very very sloooow. In text mode it runs good. Graphic card is recognized by system. Monitor is listed in the system but gives error message when selected. So I selected agenereic monitor.Could this be a problem ? or Is 486 /66 too slow for graphic Linux. Windows 95 runs good on this machine. Any suggestions ? I am new to Linux.

I want to add that I have EZ drive on both my HDD so that partitions bigger than 540 MB is recognized.

I ran Redhat 6.1 on a PI 133 system, with 64 Mb RAM and I found that to be really slow in Xwindows. Upgraded the processor and RAM, and everything ran a lot quicker.

Redhat comes with both KDE and Gnome/enlightenment.All of them are "heavy" for your system.You should have >64MB RAM and a pentium is highly recommended. If you use however another window manager things should be O.K.Try Afterstep/blackbox/fvwm2 and as a last resort twm.

here try this my fellow RISC 486er Q: Do you have a PCI port? A: Yes, Get a Faster Video Card 4Megabyte At least it seems 486's choke a lot from slow video cards... After that you'll see a %45 increase in speed and be able to run in 1600x1200x16bit. Sometimes it dosent pay to upgrade to a p133 or a DX4/100 i have... Intel P120 32Mb RAM 3.2Gig IDE DMA/33 (DMA/66 Compat) 6x CD-ROM (In pieces) SiS JOYIMAGE 170Mhz RAMDAQ 4MB Accel 32bit Creative SB AWE32 Corel Linux/Win 98 Enough Typing im tired... Night and hope a new v/card will save you some money. Ultimate Speed

i bought an Redhat linux 6.2 but i don't know the steps of the installation because i'm so new .so may you tell me the steps of it .one by one . that if you don't mind .Also if you don't mind telling me all features of Redhat Linux and what is the best one . yours faithfully . Abdullah