Re: [SLE] 486 dx 33 under linux
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:01:07 +0100, Oliver Ob wrote:
Hi mates,
after again more and more differences oon the german list, on trustfully come to you and ask you...
I got some old 486dx33-isa computer as a present. it has 2400 baud internal, optics at 8000 cdrom, 2x 200 mb at hdd, isa ne2000 included.
Now the question:
As we write 2001 already, what use has one still got for such an old thing to be used under linux console environment.
hope you don't treat this as a joke-question.
I shall today give you more information as I did before to rise possibility of adequate answers:
486 runs with 4 mb - is that enough for gateway-firewall-routing purposes?
It will work, though 8-ish Mb RAM would be optimal. But SuSE will probably not be the most comfortable distribution for such a restricted environment. It's a hard distribution to keep "small". Among the major distros, Slackware or Debian might be the easiest to use, given the hardware limitations. There exists a how-to that addresses your situation: the 4 MB-Laptop How-to. (Works for desktop machines too). See: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/4mb-Laptops.html It discusses most of the installation and booting issues you're going to run into with only 4MB. The author of the how-to relied on Slack 7.1 --Kevin
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