[Gllug] Linux for old 486

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> > > As to the Debian 12M requirement is that a requirement to do any type of 
> > > install or just if you want to install workstation software (ie X)?
> > 
> > Any kind of install I should think:
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-hardware-req.en.html#s2.3
> 
> I see. That's kind of crap really considering how basic (and uncapable) 
> the current Debian installer is.
> 
> The old RH installer (back in the days when it was C based) did much 
> better with server class hardware (think hardware RAID systems) and would 
> work in systems that had 8MB of RAM and perhaps less.

I seem to remember installing on a 5Mb box once.

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