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

[Nick Kay]

At 21:00 10/01/00 +1300, you wrote:
>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
>
>

Have a look at Trinux - a boot floppy Linux proxy/firewall
"http://www.trinux.org"

hih
nick@nexnix