[ILUG] 2X486 1XPentium Installing Linux

[David Oggs]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:08:04AM +0100, Andrew Betson wrote:
> Anyway back to the subject..... A very good point raised in on of the 
> replys was that a lot of distros these days arnt really geared towwards old 
> 486's (there DX4 100mhzs or Enhanced DX4's as the BIOS likes to call em)
> What would be the best, i'll be uising them for personal use on a network 
> of up to maby 8 varied boxes and 5 or 6 users, i'd like to run a lot of the 
> network stuff and generaly use and abuse them as much as possible, have 
> SuSE 6.4 Cd's and Redhat 5.2 and 6.2
> But im open to suggestions
openbsd would sit nicely on there...oh wait, ilug *cough*. Slackware, install
just the base and it will be more than happy. Slack'll boot of a machine
with 4mb of ram (the installer at least). Don't know if it still holds 
true for slack7 but from what i've seen it should do. It hasn't got a nice
a package management tool as debian tho, but its still functional. Actualy
debian base is pretty neat too.


> Andrew

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