FC on old PC

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Mon Nov 10 21:10:53 UTC 2003


At 15:27 11/10/2003, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 05:39, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > PS I have a 386sx12Mhz with 4MB RAM running RH62 on a 80MB HD as a simple
> > firewall. I can't upgrade because of the disk and the BIOS ;))
>
>I've got a 386 with 32MB of RAM that's running Red Hat 8.0.  I've kept
>updating the distro periodically since RH 5.0 (at the time, it hat 5MB
>RAM).  Starting around Red Hat 7.something I couldn't boot the
>installers, so I upgraded the "naughty way" (updating the RPMs live).
>
>Sometime soon I'll probably try the same technique to get it running
>Fedora... after all, the Fedora RPMs *are* compiled with --march=i386,
>right?  ;)

Don't bother... use RULE:

http://www.rule-project.org

Documented installs in 8MB of RAM and on 486 machines. Will most likely do 
all that you want.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com





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