Have yo tried browsing Freshmeat? http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/ THere was just a few I found on google that will run on a 386.. I know Freshmeat has a few more. - Gary On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 08:14, Aaron D. Priest wrote: > I'm looking for a current distro that I can put on my 386 right now! > I've finally given up and decided I'll just do it myself using > http://linuxfromscratch.org. > > > Aaron D. Priest > Coastal Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Don Head > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 23:55 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker-firewall] FW: [Cooker] i486 optimized? > > > > > > ?? that arch was last supported with 7.0... > > > > > > > > Myabe it's time to port 7.2 to 486 ... I know several > > > > people that want > > > > to use mdk as routeur on a 486 computer, unfortunately 7.0 > > > > is a little > > > > bit ... old > > > > > > The market is too small. > > > > Yeah, we all know that, but that doesn't change the > > situation for the few of us that still have 486 boxes > > laying around that we want to use! > > > > I've asked this quite a few times, and Mandrake has never > > graced me (or anyone else that's asked) with a response: > > > > - Could Mandrake recompile the installation process and > > base packages (that "minimal install" set) for i386 or > > i486, so that those of us with older machines could at > > least get it installed? Once that part is done, > > recompiling packages for i386 or i486 is simple. > > > > We'd shut up after that! > > > > The same goes for SPARC, Alpha, and PPC. If you could > > keep the installation process semi-current for all those > > architechtures (maybe along the lines of a > > [i486|sparc|alpha|ppc]-base-install-Freq), the world > > would be a MUCH better place! > > > > I propose releasing a base install for each of those > > archs at the same time (or not too long after) releasing > > a final version of the i586 build, and doing the same > > thing every time you release a i586 Freq build. > > > > Yes, that's right. So 8.1 would be: > > > > Mandrake81-i586-cd1.iso - 650MB > > Mandrake81-i586-cd2.iso - 650MB > > Mandrake81-i586-cd3.iso - 650MB > > Mandrake81-i486-cd1.iso - 100MB > > Mandrake81-sparc-cd1.iso - 100MB > > Mandrake81-alpha-cd1.iso - 100MB > > Mandrake81-ppc-cd1.iso - 100MB > > > > Seems like a lot of work, but it really shouldn't be! > > The last 4 would just be the installation process and > > base packages, rebuilt for their particular arch! > > > > We will rebuild the rest of the RPMS! We won't complain > > anymore! This way, the base packages will be on the > > same version number between architechtures, and we can > > rebuild SRPMS and submit bugs/cooker reports for all the > > archs in the same fashion we do with i586. > > > > I think this would do great things for Cooker and the > > distro in general, as you'd get more (current) bug > > reports on other archs, so you could fix the bugs quickly > > in cooker and they'll be ready in case you ever want to > > release a full other-arch distro. > > > > > > > > Or Maybe SNF or ProSuite ( the server specialise pack ) might be a > > > > better candidat. > > > > > > Yes SNF runs on i486, it's targetted for these computers. > > > > I thought the final was released for i586 only, and the > > last non-i586 version was a beta? > > I find it kind of humorous that every time the subject of > i386/i486 compiles or anything else along those lines is > brought up, Mandrake employees don't respond to the > seemingly valid points raised by us users. I thought I > actually found a good way to have the best of both > worlds, and took the time to write it out as best I could > and post it to this list. All I want is to hear what you > have to say about my ideas (in the e-mail above). > > I know you guys are busy and stuff, and if you had > planned on getting back to me, I apologize. All too > often though, if an e-mail doesn't get answered in the > first 2 days, it'll get forgotten and never revisited. > I'm just trying to make sure that someone sees the ideas > I've offered. > > If I get a good response from Mandrake, it might actually > shut me up for a while. =P > > > To try and spread my idea and increase my chances of a > response from a Mandrake employee, I'm cross-posting this > to Cooker-PPC and Cooker-Firewall. The ideas I've > expressed above regarding building minimal installs for > different architechtures can apply to both the Cooker-PPC > distro and the SNF distro discussed on Cooker-Firewall. > > > I hope that for once I can actually receive a response on > a subject that has been ignored for the past year, and > that means a lot to myself and many others who do still > use older hardware and alternative architechhtures. > > > Don Head > SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ > > Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] > [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ] > >
