may i suggest trying a vanilla kernel, for example 2.2 or 2.4 and this patch http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html
because you mentioned you have a ram with errors. it seems solid, but i haven't tried it yet. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Geoffrey S. Mendelson > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:16 AM > To: Eliran Gonen > Cc: Alexander Maryanovsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux distro for old computers > > > Eliran Gonen wrote: > > > > Alexander Maryanovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me > > > to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system > > > called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't > ..... > > Perhaps RedHat 6.0/6.2 with Gnome 1.4 or Kde 2 ? > > I was recently given a 486/66 that I had nursed along for years as a windows > computer for a neighbor. They finaly bought a used PII and instead of trashing > the 486, gave it to me. I found that this particular machine had bad ram and > a hard drive, but I had both in my junk bin. > > I installed 32m RAM and and a 1.6 gig hard drive. I looked around for linux > distros to install on it. I tried RH9, but it took too long to install and > used to much space. What ever happened to a "minimal" install? > > I've installed RH9 on Pentium I machines 133mHz/32m RAM, but they needed a lot > more disk space > > So looking around, I tried to install Redhat 3.0.3, which seemed to be about > the size I could fit on the hard drive without any extra Disk Manager > type software. The 486 BIOS was limited to 520meg hard drives > > I found that 3.0.3 has completly disappeared from all archives. Even a Google > search found directories, but they were empty > > So I settled for RedHat 6.2. It installed ok, but the smallest system I > could make was around 500 meg. Using the boot from a 32m partition trick, I > was able to get the entire disk work without extra software > > I then found the following problems: > > 1. There was no C compiler, The last RedHat packaged C compiler for it was > EGCS. Adding EGCS and make and some other tools brought it over 600meg > > 2. There was no SSH. I had to compile SSH, which required GCC, so number 1 > became relevant > > 3. There was no SUDO. I had to comiple it from source > > 4. Every known security hole in Linux from about two years ago was present > and NOT fixed. Not a big problem to me, as the machine would always live > behind a firewall, but one in the real world required a lot of updates > > 5. X windows works, but slow. If you remove things like sendmail, and things > that might be usefull in the real world, you can get it to run without > swapping. > > This does not count as a RedHat limitation, but the machine had a Tseng Labs > ET4000 VLB display card with the gigantic (at the time) 1meg of video ram > The best I could get out of it was 800x600x8. > > BTW, I decided to not use Debian as I prefer to download complete ISO > images instead of using jigdo. > > Geoff > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-54-608-069 > Do sysadmins count networked sheep? > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
