What distros support 486 machines?

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

apt4rpm can take the place of up2date

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bill Horne wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:28:53PM -0500, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bill Horne wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
> >
> > 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,
> 
> This machine is currently in service, running RH 7.1. It has
> all the NIC cards, etc. that it needs. I just swapped a 
> 2.2GB SCSI drive for a 40GB IDE, and tried to upgrade in 
> the bargain, but RH 9 didn't like something in the mix.
> 
> I'm back to running 7.1, with the new drive. 
> 
> This is first and foremost a firewall, and I do a little 
> mail, html, and PHP work with it. I agree that the setup 
> isn't that great a load, but RH 9 says it's not compatible
> with my hardware, even after I pare it down to bare essentials.
> 
> I'd stay with 7.1 if RH wasn't retiring it, but I like the 
> up2date capability too much to do manual patches when 
> new bugs are found.
> 
> Bill
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