On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:33, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:

But what the heck--in theory it's very possible.

Right, what is the theory? I'm itching to haul out my old 386... :-) Thanks Hans

Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

I doubt a 486 would hold enough memory for KDE3 but then you might get fluxbox aka blackbox to run maybe. Still finding an older PCI based graphics card might be a challenge.

A 486 could quite easily hold 64M - which is enough for KDE3. Finding PCI based graphics is not a problem, they're still sold. Finding ISA based VGA might be a bit of a challenge, but in my case, the VGA graphics is builtin. Besides, I have no need for KDE3 - I have a few 486s that I want to use as routers. -- best regards, Per Jessen, per@computer.org http://jessen.ch/dansk-listen - for alle danskere i udlandet

* Per Jessen [Jan 07. 2004 15:55]:

rebuilding everything - well I have a medium-size (16 processors) cluster - that should shorten the build time somewhat. Bootstrap - rebuild the boot & modules disks for i486. Wouldn't that do it?

Don't forget to use the build.rpm to build it.

What I was after were things like - do I need to change any scripts, config-tables/files and stuff like that?

Nope, if you just manage to compile with -m{arch,cpu}=486 then everything is fine. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:31 pm, Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:52, Per Jessen wrote:

...

I know this isn't officially supported by SuSE, but I've been wondering if it might be possible - ie. rebuild all RPMs for i486 etc. Before I give it a go, has anyone contemplated or actually tried this?

I'm all for SUSE advocacy and all, but if you're serious about running linux on a 486 you might want to look at Slackware or and if you really want to compile it all, consider Gentoo.

Or if you want to learn what's going on 'under the hood' - linux from scratch at www.linuxfromscratch.org Dylan

Hans

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