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What distros support 486 machines?



Any distro with i386 support will install on a 386 or newer, that includes
the latest version of RH. Your only hangup is memory, you should have
atleast 8MB, 32 if at all possible.

That doesn't mean all other programs will run on that machine, and forget
about a GUI.

-joe

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Johannes Ullrich wrote:

> 
> > Eh?  Which "current release" from Red Hat does not support i486?  RH9
> > certainly has 486 support (it's called "i386", but the i486 will run
> > i386 binaries)... 
> 
> Las time I attempted to install RH (I think it was 7.3) on a 486 it
> barfed. I think it needs more memory then typically used by 486 systems.
> Don't remember the exact amount required.
> 
> 
> 





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