Certainly it's doable. Try it with Slackware. I've put Slack into less
than 80 megs no problem, and it was complete with more software than I
needed. You'll probably not want to try and get the X11 stuff onto that
machine, but a console based system is certainly usable on a machine
like that.
The older versions of Slack (such as 3.4) would probably the best bet.
They come with 2.0 series kernels, but unless you absolutely *need* a
feature that's only available in the 2.2 series there shouldn't be any
problem. Though I *would* upgrade to at least 2.0.36 (IIRC 3.4 is
2.0.20-something or maybe even 2.0.30). Compiling a kernel on that
486-25MHz would take a long time - I would instead compile it on a
machine with a faster CPU and transfer the completed kernel to the 486
(make zdisk comes to mind).
One of the reasons I mention 3.4 is it is still setup to be able to do a
complete install via floppy. Also I mention it because I'm somewhat
familiar with it.
One last suggestion / request - for future posts to the list *please*
turn off HTML.
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