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Use this Site, offered for busy Agents. Sorry but the Site is only in German at this Time. We will translate the Site in December 2001 in English, Spain and at French comes in 2002. http://www.lesebote.de. Have a nice Time and a lot of luck. Regards R. Barth At 04:30 13.10.01 -0400, you wrote: >Have yo tried browsing Freshmeat? > >http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ > >http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/ > > >THere was just a few I found on google that will run on a 386.. I know >Freshmeat has a few more. > > >- Gary > >On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 08:14, Aaron D. Priest wrote: > > I'm looking for a current distro that I can put on my 386 right now! > > I've finally given up and decided I'll just do it myself using > > http://linuxfromscratch.org. > > > > > > Aaron D. Priest > > Coastal Technologies > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Don Head > > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 23:55 > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Cooker-firewall] FW: [Cooker] i486 optimized? > > > > > > > > ?? that arch was last supported with 7.0... > > > > > > > > > > Myabe it's time to port 7.2 to 486 ... I know several > > > > > people that want > > > > > to use mdk as routeur on a 486 computer, unfortunately 7.0 > > > > > is a little > > > > > bit ... old > > > > > > > > The market is too small. > > > > > > Yeah, we all know that, but that doesn't change the > > > situation for the few of us that still have 486 boxes > > > laying around that we want to use! > > > > > > I've asked this quite a few times, and Mandrake has never > > > graced me (or anyone else that's asked) with a response: > > > > > > - Could Mandrake recompile the installation process and > > > base packages (that "minimal install" set) for i386 or > > > i486, so that those of us with older machines could at > > > least get it installed? Once that part is done, > > > recompiling packages for i386 or i486 is simple. > > > > > > We'd shut up after that! > > > > > > The same goes for SPARC, Alpha, and PPC. If you could > > > keep the installation process semi-current for all those > > > architechtures (maybe along the lines of a > > > [i486|sparc|alpha|ppc]-base-install-Freq), the world > > > would be a MUCH better place! > > > > > > I propose releasing a base install for each of those > > > archs at the same time (or not too long after) releasing > > > a final version of the i586 build, and doing the same > > > thing every time you release a i586 Freq build. > > > > > > Yes, that's right. So 8.1 would be: > > > > > > Mandrake81-i586-cd1.iso - 650MB > > > Mandrake81-i586-cd2.iso - 650MB > > > Mandrake81-i586-cd3.iso - 650MB > > > Mandrake81-i486-cd1.iso - 100MB > > > Mandrake81-sparc-cd1.iso - 100MB > > > Mandrake81-alpha-cd1.iso - 100MB > > > Mandrake81-ppc-cd1.iso - 100MB > > > > > > Seems like a lot of work, but it really shouldn't be! > > > The last 4 would just be the installation process and > > > base packages, rebuilt for their particular arch! > > > > > > We will rebuild the rest of the RPMS! We won't complain > > > anymore! This way, the base packages will be on the > > > same version number between architechtures, and we can > > > rebuild SRPMS and submit bugs/cooker reports for all the > > > archs in the same fashion we do with i586. > > > > > > I think this would do great things for Cooker and the > > > distro in general, as you'd get more (current) bug > > > reports on other archs, so you could fix the bugs quickly > > > in cooker and they'll be ready in case you ever want to > > > release a full other-arch distro. > > > > > > > > > > > Or Maybe SNF or ProSuite ( the server specialise pack ) might be a > > > > > better candidat. > > > > > > > > Yes SNF runs on i486, it's targetted for these computers. > > > > > > I thought the final was released for i586 only, and the > > > last non-i586 version was a beta? > > > > I find it kind of humorous that every time the subject of > > i386/i486 compiles or anything else along those lines is > > brought up, Mandrake employees don't respond to the > > seemingly valid points raised by us users. I thought I > > actually found a good way to have the best of both > > worlds, and took the time to write it out as best I could > > and post it to this list. All I want is to hear what you > > have to say about my ideas (in the e-mail above). > > > > I know you guys are busy and stuff, and if you had > > planned on getting back to me, I apologize. All too > > often though, if an e-mail doesn't get answered in the > > first 2 days, it'll get forgotten and never revisited. > > I'm just trying to make sure that someone sees the ideas > > I've offered. > > > > If I get a good response from Mandrake, it might actually > > shut me up for a while. =P > > > > > > To try and spread my idea and increase my chances of a > > response from a Mandrake employee, I'm cross-posting this > > to Cooker-PPC and Cooker-Firewall. The ideas I've > > expressed above regarding building minimal installs for > > different architechtures can apply to both the Cooker-PPC > > distro and the SNF distro discussed on Cooker-Firewall. > > > > > > I hope that for once I can actually receive a response on > > a subject that has been ignored for the past year, and > > that means a lot to myself and many others who do still > > use older hardware and alternative architechhtures. > > > > > > Don Head > > SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ > > > > Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] > > [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ] > > > >
