[Gllug] Linux on 486s

[Simon Bunker]

There is actually a ditribution that would fit on with space to spare ;o)
Have a look at muLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ however it isn't that
useful and the librarys are pretty out of date - it was bvased on libc5 last
time I looked rather than glibc - does have samba and even a GUI though and
installs over floppy.

I tried this with a similar machine - 66Mhz 486, but it only had 4Mb RAM -
16Mb is the absolute minumum without taking the hard disk out and installing
from another machine. It might run from it but the instalation needs to
create a virtual disk in memory to install.

Zipslack also looks pretty decent at 100Mb, although this sort of hardware
is really pushing the limits!

Simon
http://www.rendermania.com/
UIN 11123737

> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > I've got an old 486 33MHz machine 20MB RAM, 100MB HD.
> > I'm trying to set up Linux on it, mainly just to play around with
> > networking, firewalls etc.
> > Will this be possible or am I wasting my time?
>
> Thats fine bar the HD... you can put linux on something that small but its
> not worth the hassle for 10 or 20 quid to buy a gig drive. See the
> slackware zip drive distro...
>
> > Also, for networking would ethernet cards be the way to go, or would a
> > serial port connection work?
>
> A serial port would work, but for a beginner just bung an el-cheapo
> ethernet card in there.
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve stevecoast at hushmail.com
>


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