[Wolves] Linux on an old PC

[Old Dan]

> Has anybody succesfully run SuSe 9.2 on an old PC?  It's not for me
> but somebody asked me  if it were possible?  They have tried using a
> PC running 196mb of RAM together with a 166 Pentium MMX chip.  The PC
> hangs so far into the install and goes no further.  I'm pretty sure
> 9.2 ought to run on a 166 but maybe not.  Or could it be something
> else preventing it?  I've got an old PC with a 166 MMX myself and had
> thought of running SuSE on this.  Perhaps it's not a good idea?  This
> chap has run other distros succesfully on this particular PC by the
> way so it's not the Machinery that's actually broken....perhaps not
> quite up to the job.

I'm not 100% sure on this but IIRC SuSE requires at least a Pentium II/300MHz.

Whilst you can forget the 300MHz bit (as it should still run but just
sloooooooooooow) the kernel may well have been compiled with PII
optimizations which would render it incompatible with a PI.

HTH
-- 
Dan