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

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, 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?
> 
Try getting a copy of Mandrake 5.3 and installing that. It
*should* work, if you don't try to install X.
        John