[Gllug] Linux for old 486

[Peter Childs]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Doug Winter wrote:

> On Mon 01 Sep Henrik Morsing wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon 01 Sep Ian Scott wrote:
> > >> Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > You can boot debian off floppies, and install over the network?
> > 
> > Not on 8MB.
> > BSD and Minix does require less RAM.
> 
> whoops missed that.  Debian needs 12Mb minimum.  soz.
> 
> doug.
> 
	I seam to remeber install Slackware once on a 8Mb 486SX laptop. 
	In slackware early slackware distributions under slakware are a 
number of directories a1, a2, a3 each of these should fit on a 1.44floppy 
and then will install from the boot disk.
	I found that Linux, ran a lot quicker than DOS ever did and did a 
lot more..... But that was about 5 years ago.

Peter


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