Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

[Lyndon Lininger Sr.]

Have you tried mandrake 5.3? It wasn't optimized for pentiums and was still
set for the 386.

Lyndon Lininger Sr.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:00 AM
Subject: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)


> I've got an old 486 here that my friend wants to use as a
> firewall/proxy, but I can't install either mandrake or redhat on it due
> to the lack of ram (8mb) and it being a 486. On both, it stops at
> loading 2nd stage ramdisk. It's quite screwed, at least for windoze use,
> since it'll only boot with the hard drive set to slave, so I can't
> install a UMSDOS-based floppy distro. Does anyone have any suggestions
> as to what can be installed or what I can do to get mandrake onto it?
>
> ps: I sent a message to the newbie list, and it appeared on the
> archives, but I haven't got any msgs from the list since yesterday, even
> tho i know there are some there.
>
> Andrew Mitchell