minimal Fedora install?
Timothy Payne
tim at tmpco.com
Mon Oct 25 04:04:59 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:56, Joel wrote:
> > ...
> > I was given a pentium something or other box over the weekend and I
> > want to install Fedora on. It only has like 24 megs of <proprietary>
> > ram. If there is such a thing as a pci ram card maybe it might merit
> > throwing it in there.
> >
> > I would be interested to knowing who out there has loaded FC
> > successfully on a really old machine, what you did to overcome
> > problems, etc. Cruddiest hardware contest! :) At what point does
> > the camels back break with regards to cruddy hardware?
> >
> > I can upgrade the hard drive (which is only 1g at this point). It'd
> > be kinda cool to get FC on it and not have to go to a 'tiny' distro.
> > Resources: floppy drive, no cdrom, pci slots.
>
>
> (Putting on my asbestos suit, just in case ...)
>
> Not sure if you would be interested, but have you heard of netbsd and/or
> openbsd? (Takes a little thinking ahead, but I've done netbsd on 8M RAM,
> 160M HD on a 33MHz 68030 CPU, for example.) (netbsd.org, opensd.org)
>
> --
> Joel <rees at ddcom.co.jp>
http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ I never got it to work, but that
was years ago.
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