On April 7, 2002 06:56 am, Clayton Cornell wrote:
I have dug up an old 386sx25 with 4MB RAM and a 100 MB HD. I would like to get this system up and running.... with Linux of course. The problem seems to be finding a package that will actually run on the silly thing. I have yet to be able to boot a SuSE Linux floppy on it.... of course, chekcing the boxes ofthe various 7.x versions I have tells me that a 386 is out of the question.
The ultimate goal of this machine is for it to be a simple play machine with basic ethernet/internet access. I would like to get one of the simple WMs running and a simple web browser as well, but this is not a must have.... more of a challenge once I get an OS installed.
So... any suggestions? FreeBSD, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware etc all seem to have system requirements beyond the humble hardware of this machine. Am I stuck with loading DOS6.22 and Windows 3.11 <shudder>?
How much work are you willing to do? The easiest would be to find an old copy of SuSE. I bet 6.0 and before might work. The next step would be to start with one of the router based packages [which will be more upto date] and then add in the other things you need. The final way would be to roll it all yourself. Nick