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From: Derek Simkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 4:26 AM
Subject: [expert] 386 system
>
> I need to install off a 386 with 8MB RAM, acrossed the network.
> Redhat 6.0 requires 16MB of RAM, so I can't do it (it craps out).
>
> Will the non-Pentium version of Mandrake work? If not, can anyone
> recommend a good distro for low-end hardware? I'd prefer to use an
> RPM-based system, but that is not required.
>
>
> It has a 250MB hard drive.
>
The base install of even Mandrake 5.x will be too much.
If you want a full distro, I would suggest trying to use Debian, I have not
used it myself, but it has a reputation of giving the user much, much
control over what is installed so you can put in just what you need.
Given that, I have used both Mandrake 5.3 and Peanut-Linux on 386 machines.
I have used Ballantain on an 8M/386 box as a dial-up router; it does not
need a hard drive, monitor, mouse or keyboard. Just a floppy, NIC and modem.
A distro called xdenu can be used to turn the box into an X terminal (a
two-floppy install).
And, tomsrtbt gives you a lot of Linux on a floppy; you might be able to
find a way to migrate the distro to a hard drive if need to.
