Nick Kay wrote:
>
> At 21:00 10/01/00 +1300, you 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
> >
> >
>
> Have a look at Trinux - a boot floppy Linux proxy/firewall
> "http://www.trinux.org"
>
> hih
> nick@nexnix
Unfortunately - from the website "Trinux is based on a strippred-down
version of Linux that should boot on any 386 or better with at least
12-16 megabytes of RAM. "
This heap only has 8mb, so I might have to find some more ram that'll
work
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