minimal Fedora install?
Joel
rees at ddcom.co.jp
Mon Oct 25 03:56:03 UTC 2004
> ...
> 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>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list