Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2002-12-16 a las 11:22, Ken Hough escribió:
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:22:41 +0000 From: Ken Hough
To: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] Experimenting with installing Suse on an old computer. 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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Uncompressing.............................
And it stops right there - it has been at that exact point for half an hour, I think, and I doesn't seem to have intention of going on.
(I got the install running with another image - now the problem is different)
I run SuSE v6.4 on an old 486. Installation was from an IDE CDROM. No problems.
But this machine never had a cdrom, and linux does not recognise it, it says its an ide tape device.
You should stick with older distros as modern distros usually assume a Pentium processor.
Aparently, 6.1 was compiled for a 386, in theory at least :-)
My 486 PC can dual boot DOS v6 or SuSE v6.4, but normally runs well as a SAMBA / APACHE / NFS server. Just don't bother trying to run X windows -- it takes for ever!!!
Ah... pity, I fancied giving it a try - no kde or gnome, just fvwm or something similar. After all, this machine ran Win 3.11... :-)
I expect that you would have trouble trying to run any form of windows on your 386 PC. I'm currently playing with playing with an old Toshiba Satalite Pro 480 CDT (233 MHz Pentium with 64 MB Ram). KDE3 will run but there's so much swapping that it's not viable. icewm is sort of OK, but still sluggish. I might have some spare RAM chips that could work in the 386. Let me know what your PC needs and I'll have a look. Don't know why Linux doesn't recognise your CDROM, I've used a variety of CDROMs ranging from old 8x drives to modern 56x units without any problems. Enybody else any suggestions? Ken Hough