Wow, lots of interesting replies on this question. So far no sucess booting olderversions of Linux. I almost got SuSE6.4 to start up. It chokes on uncompressing the Ramdrive image. It actually runs along reasonably fast until then... and then just stops completely. I took a look at some of the other suggestions... SmallLinux is a serious "roll your own" package. I looked around for BeOS, but since they have gone the way of the Dodo, there is not much out there. I did find some ftp sites hosting the last couple versions, but the HW requiements were way beyond the 386. I know the RAM is low, but there is not much option to increase it... trying to find 30pin SIMS is like trying to find SIPS for your old 286.... although, the local computer fair is in town this coming weekend, and they sell old RAM by the 1 KG bags for cheap. There might be some 2MB or even 4MB modules in one of the bags... I'll keep poking around... and if I manage anything interesting I'll post the results if anyone is still interested... what version I actually manage to install etc. C. On Monday 08 April 2002 01:45, rev rob wrote:
On Sunday 07 April 2002 10:37, Clayton Cornell wrote:
On Sunday 07 April 2002 18:27, rev rob wrote:
Hello I've had much success with SuSE 6.4 on old machines.I'm mostly sure this is legal,Give me your address off the list and I'll send you a copy if you like or maybe the SuSE website will have it,too. Good Luck
Hmmmm thanks for the reminder.... I actually have a backup copy of SuSE6.4 - had to dig it out of my archive (a cardboard box in the back cupboard). I gave away my originals a few months ago and totally forgot about the copy. Good thing I didn't toast the backup copy. I also found a copy of Corel Linux 1.0 in the same archive... err umm cardboard box.
Only one minor problem. Gotta find a way to make the boot floppies.... and find an old CDROM drive I can install. I could take the one out of my Smoothwall router.
Did you have to do any significant tweaking to boot the 6.4 kernel, or should I be able to use the stock 6.4 kernel, and YaST1 to install?
C.
Stock kernel and YAST should be fine. Keep me posted of your progress