[ale] linux on a 486

[Dave Brooks]

OpenBSD on a 486/33?  That's child's play.  I had it running on a Macintosh
Quadra 800 (25MHz, 32MB mem., 400MB HDD)... running sendmail, DHCP, NAT, AND
serving webpages withb PHP.  Not the speediest thing ever, but it worked for
my purposes...

Thus spake Michael Smith,
>If everything fails, you could try OpenBSD.  I had it working on a 486/33
>with 32 meg of memory without any major problems.  I know it's not Linux
>but.....it's better then Windows 3.1....
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wandered Inn [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:28 AM
>To: ALE
>Subject: [ale] linux on a 486
>
>
>I've been attempting to load linux on a challenging system.  It's a 486
>with 8 meg of ram.  Mandrake tells you up front to forget it, Red Hat
>will begin to boot, but a couple steps into the install process tells
>you you don't have enough memory.  I fell back on the tried and true
>Slackware which appears to work with limited systems.  In spite of the
>fact that the docs for 8.0 tell you the install requires 16 MB minimum. 
>I figured I'd fire it up, create some extra swap and go with it.  Well,
>I get to the point where it's installing the devs package and, well it's
>still there two days later.  I can go to other virtual consoles and do
>limited stuff, but they begin to hang as well.  I could drop back to an
>earlier version of slack which I know has worked on this box in the
>past, but I'd like to go with latest greatest stuff if possible.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions for other dists. that might fly with this
>limited box?
>
>--
>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
>
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