> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 09:45:47AM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > > Many distros will work on a 386 w/4 megs ram, some will only do i586 or > > newer, like mandrake... If you look at the RPM's they will say > > blah-blah.i386.rpm, those are compiled for i386 or up, mandrakes rpms are > > blah-blah.i586.mdk.rpm, which require pentium cpu. I think debian, slackware, > > (most all distros over 2 years old), OpenBSD, ... should work. > > Nope, OpenBSD (with the GENERIC kernel at least) won't run on less than > 8MB RAM.
Here's the minimum system requirements for NetBSD-1.5.2/i386 - the current stable release: <snip> Quick install: First, let's describe a quick install. The other sections of this document go into the installation procedure in more detail, but you may find that you do not need this. If you want detailed instructions, skip to section 3. This section describes a basic installation, using a CD-ROM install as an example. What you need. - The distribution sets (in this example, they are on CD). - Two 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy disks. - A PC with a 386 or newer processor. - A CD-ROM drive (SCSI or ATAPI), a harddisk and a minimum of 4 MB of memory installed. - The harddisk should have at least 70 + n megabytes of space free, where n is the number of megabytes of main memory in your system. If you wish to install the X Window System as well, you will need at least 60 MB more. <snip> This stuff was swiped from the INSTALL.html file that comes with the installation media. I'm sure you can find the same info at www.netbsd.org Cheers, Beaker - daemon advocate - running NetBSD, of course.
