> > There are a *lot* of 486es out there which are useful in > this capacity. Some > > of them will be diskless, in which case the ``distro'' > would be installed to > > be a remote-bootable image on a better machine rather than as the > > primary/only installation on a 386/486. > > in which case the entire point, getting the installer and > base to work > on 386+, doesn't apply.
I think it still does apply, actually. The stuff on the bootable image still has to be executed on the processor, so if it's an i386 or i486, the software has to be compiled as such. So it's not like you can tar up a Mandrake box and call it a bootable image for an i386.You'd have to put together an entire filesystem for the i386 to use, and what better way to do that than use the installer. Take an i386/i486 system, get the installer to work, install everything you need, then tar up it's filesystem and you have yourself a bootable image. I think that's by far the easiest way to make that work. Yeah, there's other ways of doing it, but isn't that a lot easier? Don Head SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ]
