On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> I've got an old 486 here that my friend wants to use as a
> firewall/proxy, but I can't install either mandrake or redhat on it due
> to the lack of ram (8mb) and it being a 486. On both, it stops at
> loading 2nd stage ramdisk. It's quite screwed, at least for windoze use,
> since it'll only boot with the hard drive set to slave, so I can't
> install a UMSDOS-based floppy distro. Does anyone have any suggestions
> as to what can be installed or what I can do to get mandrake onto it?
>
> ps: I sent a message to the newbie list, and it appeared on the
> archives, but I haven't got any msgs from the list since yesterday, even
> tho i know there are some there.
>
> Andrew Mitchell
>
If you hadn't noticed, Mandrake is optimized for i586 architecture. It's
not supposed to be run on 486's. However, put Redhat or one of the
mini-router distribs on it and I wouldn't be surprised if it would run
like a champ.
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