On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:14, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:26:47PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:39, RedHat wrote:
> > > I have some older computers the oldest being a 386 and I have a copy of
> > > Linux 6.0. I would like to get some use out of these computers so I was
> > > thinking I could install 6.0 on one and make it my firewall. Would this be a
> > > good idea or should I stick with 8.0? Maybe set the others up as email and
> > > bind servers?
> > 
> > As long as you don't expect them to be speed burners you can run 
> > RedHat 8.0 on them.  I wouldn't expect them to be the fastest boxes in
> > the world, but for a cable or DSL line with a handfull of protected
> > boxes, this should be fine.
> 
> Nope.  Red Hat does not support installing or running 8.0 on a 386.  If you
> use something like the RULE project to get Linux installed, it won't be
> Red Hat Linux.
> 
Pardon me...  I didn't know that RedHat stopped supporting i386...
But you can install 7.3 on 80386 processors, no need to go all the way
back to 6.2



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