At 18:20 11/01/00 +1300, you wrote:
>Nick Kay wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>Unfortunately - from the website "Trinux is based on a strippred-down
>version of Linux that should boot on any 386 or better with at least
>12-16 megabytes of RAM. "
>This heap only has 8mb, so I might have to find some more ram that'll
>work
Hmm. I ran a 386 with 5megs for a couple of years
- something must have changed.
Still I'm sure there is something out there you could use.
ttfn
nick
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