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 Hello I've had much success with SuSE 6.4 on old machines.I'm mostly sure
On Sunday 07 April 2002 05:21, Nick Zentena wrote: 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