>From experience, the only distros that will work well on these machines are old (meaning less eye-candy) and out-of-date. I have a P75 with 32 meg that does fine on the 486 (Yes, 486) version of Mandrake 7.01. Those machines were tedious with any version (even 7.x) optimized for the Penium. RedHat 386 (circa 6.x) ran fine on a P90 with 32 megs. An old Caldera 2.4 was o.k. on a P75 with 16 megs, but nothin' to write home about. Can't give you any url's to dl, but at least some should be available. Where are you??, I could burn you a copy of mdk for 486 and mail it, if you are in the U.S. or Canada. No way I can load it to you--I'm on dial-up 8(.
]On Wednesday 23 July 2003 05:21 pm, ThinKer wrote: > Hello All, > > I've just inherited two very old machines (Original Pentium with 16MB > RAM each). I was wondering if there was anything I can download and > install on these machines. They are currently running Windows 95 and > they have Network cards already installed. I can put them on my network > and browse the Intenet. I would like to install some flavor of Linux. > Maybe a network or boot-floppy installation (since they only have 3.5 > inch floppies) that will help me get more familiar with the way Linux > works. > > > > Thanks, > > Thinker
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