[ale] linux on a 486

[rob hoppe]

Wandered Inn wrote:

> I've been attempting to load linux on a challenging system.  It's a 486
> with 8 meg of ram.  Mandrake tells you up front to forget it, Red Hat
> will begin to boot, but a couple steps into the install process tells
> you you don't have enough memory.  I fell back on the tried and true
> Slackware which appears to work with limited systems.  In spite of the
> fact that the docs for 8.0 tell you the install requires 16 MB minimum.
> I figured I'd fire it up, create some extra swap and go with it.  Well,
> I get to the point where it's installing the devs package and, well it's
> still there two days later.  I can go to other virtual consoles and do
> limited stuff, but they begin to hang as well.  I could drop back to an
> earlier version of slack which I know has worked on this box in the
> past, but I'd like to go with latest greatest stuff if possible.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for other dists. that might fly with this
> limited box?
>
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