[Preston] Linux on a 486

[John]

amazingly enough, I mentioned to a colleague at work that I was looking for
an old PC and he's giving me his old 486 which has been gathering dust in a
cupboard for quite some time... Thanks to all for the help and advice though
:o))
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Johnson" <robin@totalise.co.uk>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] Linux on a 486


> You ould get a copy of Computer Mart from your newsagent, I think it is
> weekly. There are loads of adverts for reconditioned units in there.
>
> Robin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "XsCode" <xsc0de@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [Preston] Linux on a 486
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: preston-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:preston-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of John
> > Sent: 18 September 2002 19:55
> > To: preston@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Preston] Linux on a 486
> >
> >
> > Does anybody know where I can get hold of one or more old cheap PC's???
I
> am
> > toying with the idea of setting one up as a dedicated firewall using
IPCop
> > but I don't want to fork out tons of cash for it... Does anybody have
any
> > idea on prices of anything from say an old 486 up to a Pentium P100 /
P133
> > that would do the job for me? Also, does anybody know of any places were
> old
> > kit gets recycled out at knock down prices? I know the computer fairs up
> at
> > Deepdale tend to have job lots but they always seem to be on when I have
> got
> > my kids for the weekend.... I believe there is a computer shop based
> > somewhere in Kirkham and another on Friargate but I would imagine that
> those
> > places would not bother to deal in such old kit (unless they are in to
> > hoodwinking the unwary non-computer-savvy home buyer he he he).... Any
> > advice both on the technicalities of IPCops and hardware would be
greatly
> > appreciated....
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Blundell" <alan.blundell@lineone.net>
> > To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Preston] Linux on a 486
> >
> >
> > > I can make it next Thursday & bring tiny linux / RH4.1 / zipslack
(from
> > > my extensive collection of old linux distros ...)  It'll be good to
meet
> > > some of the people whose mail I've been reading this last few weeks!
> > >
> > > PS: saw on LinuxToday that RH 8.0 is due out imminently.  Doesn't that
> > > ALWAYS happen when someone's spent ages downloading the previous
> version?!
> > >
> > > Phil Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > snip
> > > > along with the disks. Alternatively, if anyone has a copy of
something
> > that
> > > > will happily run on one of my 486 machines, I could bring my PII
along
> > as it
> > > > is (RH7.2) and we could have a go at a network install of something.
> > > snip
> > > > By the way, if anyone wants RH7.3, I have recently downloaded it
from
> > one of
> > > > the mirror sites and could burn a few spare copies over the weekend.
> > > snip
> > >
> > >
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