[ale] linux on a 486

[Wandered Inn]

"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> This is wild-eyed speculation, but I think you might have
> better luck with a version of Slack that defaults to a 2.2-series
> kernel, such as 7.1. 

Slack 8.0 gives you the option of 2.2.19 which is what I've chosen. :(

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