What distros support 486 machines?

[josephc at etards.net (josephc at etards.net)]

Heh, I think you would be harder pressed to find hardware that WON'T work 
with that configuration :)

Honestly, I think for the time and money you're going to spend looking for 
parts for that machine (assuming you have CPU and mobo, you'll still need 
a NIC, HD, and RAM), you may want to look at just ordering a cheapo PC 
online.

check out http://www.computer-show.com/

I scored a dual-proc P3 for 120 bucks from them.

-joe

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bill Horne wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:11:53PM -0500, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> > 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.
> >  
> > 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
> 
> Joe,
> 
> Thanks for the info. Please tell me what components I can use
> with RH9 on a 486: I'm running a small firewall, with Samba,
> Apache, Mailman, and iptables. There's no GUI.
> 
> Bill
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