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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500, RL <rlurman@gmail.com> wrote:
 > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive.  I might
> just start from scratch.  I just got a bad feeling I will run into
> problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my
> old system.  Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system
> that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again.

Yes, apparently folks have had alot of trouble with java.  Just
to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on
a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built
without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards.
If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't
worry about java; it's not that bad.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate