[Gllug] Distro for an EPC-301

[Caroline Ford]

On 19 Aug 2009, at 10:28, Simon Morris <mozrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have one of these beasties...
>
> http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail.asp?fdProductId=469
>
> It came to us with a Compact Flash installation of PuppyLinux but I  
> was
> hoping to be able to install something with a package repository  
> behind
> it, ideally Debian.
>
> The main issue is the lack of FPU support on the processor which means
> that Ubuntu, Debian and DamnSmallLinux won't install.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on which distro to run on it, or should I
> stick with making PuppyLinux a bit more usable?
>
> I want to run these boxes with a monitoring agent installed (to  
> monitor
> VoIP quality) and also an small web based application. No GUI required
> especially.
>
> Thanks
>
> ~sm
>
It's basically an embedded device using a 386 processor?

Dunno. Most x86 is 486 or 586. Not sure people realised 386s might  
come back..

Caroline
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