Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?

[Mike McCarty]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I would reply off-list. Do you mind sending me your real
>>e-mail address? I'd like to discuss running Linux on
>>two machines: 90MHz PII and a 160MHz 486.
>>
>>If you prefer not to do that, then we'll have to use the list,
>>I guess.
> 
> 
> I'm not completely against the idea of giving out a private address, but
> I'm sure other people would also be interested in such information.
> Unless you want to discuss non-Fedora Linux on old boxes, I'd say that
> the list is appropriate.

I'm interested in running any version of Linux on a 486 (AMD586, but
Intel 486 class) with 16MB of memory. I suspect that no version of
Fedora can run in 16MB of RAM.

> The last time I tried Linux on a 486, though, was Red Hat 6.x Linux on a
> friend's < 100MHz, < 100 MB, PC.

What I want is to be able to start up a network and back up that
machine over the network. Currently it runs MSDOS 6.0, which I want
to retain on it. So I want a temporary boot.

I also have a 90MHz Pentium machine (possible Pentium II) with
32MB of RAM I'd like to put Linux on.

If you think that Fedora would be comfortable on either of those
machines (I'd have to make some sort of LiveCD for the MSDOS
machine), then I guess this is a reasonable forum. Actually,
I don't know where there is a forum for this type of discussion.

Mike
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