Re: [SLE] Experimenting with installing Suse on an old computer.
"Carlos E. R."
I have been restoring to life my old 386SX-20, 91 vintage, and got it working with a 1.7Gb Hd (original was 80Mb), and dos5 (from a set 56 floppy disks, 5 1/4", holding the backup of that PC from that time).
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What do you think, could it be possible to install suse 6.1 on that machine? Should I try an older version? I think I have 5.2 somewhere. Or should I try another type of distro?
I use 'monkey' Linux on my 386SX-16 -- it is a 2.0.30 kernel, slackware derived UMSDOS based system. Both SuSE and Redhat use way too many bash scripts, which are excruciatingly slow on a 386SX-16. How much ram does it have? A native ext2 file system 2.0.* era version of Slackware is probably your best bet in my opinion.
The 02.12.16 at 02:43, Mark Gray wrote:
What do you think, could it be possible to install suse 6.1 on that machine? Should I try an older version? I think I have 5.2 somewhere. Or should I try another type of distro?
I use 'monkey' Linux on my 386SX-16 -- it is a 2.0.30 kernel, slackware derived UMSDOS based system. Both SuSE and Redhat use way too many bash scripts, which are excruciatingly slow on a 386SX-16.
Yes, booting the install is slow. I though of suse 6.1 because I have it available. I had 5.2, but I can not find it. I must have something else on those heaps of magazine's cds I have collecting dust.
How much ram does it have?
Just 5 Mb. It is old and slow by present day standards, but it served me well from 1991 till 1995 or later. A 386SX, 20Mhz, with coprocessor added much later.
A native ext2 file system 2.0.* era version of Slackware is probably your best bet in my opinion.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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