We at the CLUE Linux centre developed a minidebian distribution for use on the 486's we are setting up for youth centres and those unable to afford a PIII 9000MHz screamer. Go to our web site at http://centre.linux.ca.
Denis Frank Copeland wrote: > Robert Parker wrote: > > >While worming through the pages I found a reference to > >a compact verison of Debian installation that was > >designed to work on a 486. I have not been able to > >find the link since, after 3 days of looking. Is there > >anyone that can direct me to the site where I can get > >more information on the deployment of DEBIAN on a > >relatively small 486 system? Or was my image an > >illusion of too many hours starring at a screen. > > I have slink (Debian 2.1r3) running on 2 486DX2/66 boxes, one with 32MB RAM > and a 2G disk and the other with 12MB RAM and ~700MB of disk. The first is a > full-blown internet box serving 3 dialin modems and running web, cache, news > and mail servers. The other is mainly a mail server at the moment. I may > turn it into a firewall/gateway one day. These are stock standard Debian > installations, done initially from a CD then updated over the net. You can > install just about everything useful (barring X) and get change from a 200MB > disk. That includes everything you need to build a kernel. > > In my experience the key to getting good performance out of a 486 box is to > stuff as much RAM into it as you can manage. The later motherboards that > will take 2-4 16MB 72pin SIMMs are the best deal, but older ones with 30pin > SIMMs will do, especially if you can score some 4MB SIMMs. I've run Debian > succesfully on 486 boxes with 8MB of RAM, console only. I've run X and > Netscape on a 486 with as little as 16MB, and it *was* painful at times, but > not fatally so. Of course I now have an AMD K6-2/350 with 64MB and I'd never > go back :-). > > I also have slink running on an Amiga 2000/030 with 5MB RAM and 236MB of > disk. It does nothing but consume electrons at the moment, but it runs, it's > on the net, and it does the sentimental side of me good to see the old > workhorse do more than just prop up a monitor. One of these days I'll set up > a web site and ftp archive on it. > > Frank > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null