I have installed Slackware 3.4 on my mighty Packard-Hell 386 laptop.
You can't use the ramdisk, and you have to gunzip the install root
(probably better use the text install), but if you enjoy a challenge, go
for it. How much horsepower does it take to process text? Well, I
wouldn't try to compile Wine on it, but if you have the disk space for
the compiler, libs, headers, and binutils, it'll compile "Hello, World!"
no worry. You will need a swap partition even for that, probably.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Marcus Walton wrote:
> Hey all!
>
>
> Is it possible to install Linux (without X Windows) on a 386 with 4 MB
ram?
> Realizing that this is a 386, what type of performance can I expect?
(i.e.
> how frustrated will I be?)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
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