On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:56:17 +0200
Clayton Cornell
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
4MB RAM is too little for today's Linux and *BSD distributions, you'll need to increase the RAM. If you don't use X Windows a minimal system will fit on the hard drive. I remember however running a LFS (before there was such an acronym) Linux kernel 0.95 and 0.99 system on a 386sx16 with 4 megs of RAM and a 40 meg HD. I even compiled the aforementioned early kernels; though it took most of the day to do it. I remember around the same time Slackware just starting, maybe Slackware with only a few neccesary non-X packages, as sacriligious as saying that on this list might be :-), might be the right thing for a 386sx25 with minimal hardware. (Though, again, I wouldn't expect it to be practical unless you increase the RAM.)