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| 218596 | 2004-02-27 14:51:00 | Hmmm - possibly due to the hour of the day perhaps, I didn't find the copies of the early releases as easily as I used to, but you could try here. (www.ibiblio.org) A younger, more awake brain should have no trouble. R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 218597 | 2004-02-27 16:21:00 | Megaman and ilikelinux> Both of you should know by now that there are many uses for a 486 other than <quote>"The bin"</quote> Vector Linux will run on that box, not with a GUI with only 4MB RAM though (Well.. It'd be dog slow, but its Xfce 3.x so it's your best bet). Not much change of getting anything over 8 gig in that baby either sorry... Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 218598 | 2004-02-27 19:01:00 | He's a thought may not be practical tho mind you . Could try a CD based Lixux if you have a CD drive in your machine . Knoppix KDE 3 . 1 or there's Lindows OS 4 . 0 that runs off CD also . |
Phar (2152) | ||
| 218599 | 2004-02-27 19:26:00 | well provided it can take a new modem, it could act as a proxy. try peanut linux, vector linux will work, but slowly |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 218600 | 2004-02-28 01:15:00 | Yea I have konpix (or was it knopix?) on a boot cd but the cd linux needs somthing like 32mb ram min or somthing but remember 486 make good key rings and 6Gig well . . . . Ill try Peanut Linux Thanks |
Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 218601 | 2004-02-28 01:16:00 | Oh I only have a 200mb HDD and Peanut linux is (340 Mb) I think | Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 218602 | 2004-02-28 01:40:00 | A 486 DX2-66 runs nicely . Just don't put a GUI on it . The minumum memory I've had working (apart from Elks) is 6MB . (That's 4MB on board and a 2MB ISA card) . It's still working -- a 386SX20 with 40MB disk . That's got Slackware with 2 . 0 . 9 kernel . A server should have a bit more memory . . . the more the better . . . for buffers . 32 MB would be a good start . I've got one running like that and it handles DNS, FTP, and a documentation collection . Just don't use one of the modern user-fiendly distributions . I gave up trying to convince RH7 . 2 to install on a 350MB disk . . . it kept loading Emacs and all the interpreters after I told it not to . :_| I actually loaded some of the Slackware floppy images onto an 8mm tape and installed from the tape . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 218603 | 2004-02-28 01:51:00 | Hi Hitman, As Chill suggested check out Vector Linux (www.vectorlinux.com) and another alternative is Monkey Linux (http:). Both of these are very small and will run a minimalist linux. Obviously KDE and Gnome GUI's are out of the question with only 8MB RAM :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 218604 | 2004-02-28 04:01:00 | You could try freesco. http://www.freesco.info/ Runs off floppy no hdd required. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 218605 | 2004-02-28 04:08:00 | Also muLinux could be the go also - members.xoom.virgilio.it | mark.p (383) | ||
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