There is a floppy-based networking distro of Linux called Linux Router
Project
http://www.linuxrouter.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on 486]
Mandrake 6.0 and up is optimised for Pentium based machines...it may install
on your 486...but it will be very slow.
Yes I have seen a floppy based install for Networking...not sure what it's
called though.
HTH
Jaguar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> I have Mandrake 6.1. I'm wanting to put it on my IBM ValuePoint 486
DX66.
> I have a 1.2Gig hard drive that I want to use for the system. The bios
doesn't
> support
> High capacity Hard Drives. I've read somewhere (which was full of bad
links)
> that you don't need Overlay software to make the bios recognize the hard
drive
> if you use Linux.
> My cd-rom on the 486 is not bootable. I also have a k-6 350 with cd-rom,
which
> will boot, except that I get corruption when I try to dual boot with
it(another
> long story).
>
> Can anyone tell me if there's a way to install Linux on a 127MB disk
then
> install Mandrake onto the large drive?
>
> Another question that might help, is there a small distrabution that
has
> network card support and will communicate with a WIN98 machine over a
network?
>
> Maybe this is a better way of putting it:
>
> PC 1 Aptiva with CD-ROM and CD-RW running win98FE, ethernet card 10/100
>
> PC2 Valuepoint 486 with 127 mb hard drive *recognized*, 20mb hardcard
> *recognized* 1.2GB hard drive *not recognized* currently running WIN3.1
> CD-ROM or eithernet card can be added. But CD-ROM isn't a boot
device.
>
> I'm quite confused on how I should install Linux on the 486.
>
> James
>
>
>
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