On Friday 19 October 2001 04:04, the sad lizard wrote: > Leon Brooks wrote: >> There are a *lot* of 486es out there which are useful in this capacity. >> Some of them will be diskless, in which case the ``distro'' would be >> installed to be a remote-bootable image on a better machine rather than >> as the primary/only installation on a 386/486.
> in which case the entire point, getting the installer and base to work > on 386+, doesn't apply. The entire point was getting a workable distro 486-compatible. This means X, window managers and at least core apps as well. Even given your limitation, 486ness is needed for disked systems, unless you want to 486ify just the running kernel and apps - not the installer - and go through the hassles of installing on one machine, then rearranging stuff for another, for each workstation?
