ok i have run Very Small Linux on a 386 sx laptop with 2 MB RAM. Painfully. beat that!
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 09:30:58 +1200 CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:18, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > CF wrote: > > > I have redhat 2.1 and debian 0.93R6 and Slackware 3.0 to install on my > > > oldbox - which is most appropriate? > > > > Most everyone used slackware in those days. > > I've got a CD somewhere with an even earlier release, from 1994. > > Worked fine on my 8MB 486 at the time. > > I'm having fun setting up the oldest machine I can... its a 386 DX25 > with 10 Mb of DIP ram (no none of those pesky modern SIMM things.) > Inside is > a Panasonic interface CDROM on a SB16 > a Tseng ET4000 VGA Accelerator (ISA of course) > Ultrastor 14F SCSI card > 3com 3c515 100 Mbit ISA NIC > Some random 16 bit IDE controller for floppy. > > All I need now for it is a hard drive, either scsi, or MFM or RLL. IDE > is too new for this box :) > > If anyone says "install Gentoo on it!" I'll reply with "NO" > >
