You could probably run X on 16MB of RAM, but you would probably have more fun gouging your eyeballs out with a dull spoon.
Mike On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:16:30PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > Well, I finally found enough time to locate a couple of floppies, write > the Red Hat 9 boot images to them, and try and boot my ancient 486 laptop > into Linux. Naturally, I wasn't expecting to install RH9 on this thing > (indeed it said I don't have enough RAM to do so)--I just wanted to see if > I could get Linux to recognize the PCMCIA ethernet card using just the > boot disks, enough to get me into a network install. (It doesn't have a CD > drive.) But poor RH9 wouldn't even do that for me. > > So, my question is: what distro would you use for a laptop this ancient? > The first thing I'm looking for is something that will recognize the > network, so I can copy off all the important Windows 3.1 (yes, you read > that correctly, 3.1) files I've got on here, then wipe the disk clean and > hopefully get some kind of Linux on here. A minimal X server would be > nice if the hardware could handle it. > > Here's the full specs (so far as I can tell): > > 486 DX4 100 Mhz processor > 16 MB memory > 740 MB hard drive > SMC8036TX EZ Card 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet > 1.44 floppy, no CD-ROM or anything fancy > > And that's about it. Any suggestions? > > ~ ross > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .__________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D All in favor of losing your rights, please do nothing.
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