[CLUE-Tech] RH8 question

[Dave Price]

FWIW,

Debian 'woody' installs painlessly on 486 systems.

aloha,
dave

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:52:07PM -0700, Ski Dawg wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 21:29, Art Reisman wrote:
> > Are you doing this as a learning type thing? If not
> > wouldn't it be easier to pick up an older pentium on
> > ebay or at a garage sale? I have an old one that I
> > just keep  as a spare that I could bring to the next
> > CLUE meeting if you are a starving artist in need...
> > 
> > Art
> 
> At first I was just trying to build a firewall for my home network, but
> after I found out that RH8 wasn't supposed to be run on a 486, it became
> a challenge. I think I should be able to get this to work since I have
> done a complete install of RH8, minus the kernel, on that box
> 
> In fact I was even able to boot up KNOPPIX (in command line mode) on
> that box, and then chroot so that I was only using the RH portion. When
> I did that, I was able to install a kernel from kernel.org, and one from
> the RPM's from RedHat. The problem was I couldn't get any of the boot
> stuff to work. It seems as though RH needs to have some kind of kernel
> to install during the initial install process or it completely messes up
> everything related to the boot sector (grub, lilo, boot partition, etc).
> 
> At this point, I should be able to get RH8 working on the 486, I just
> have to figure out exactly how. I still have a few more things to try. I
> was just wondering if someone had some opinions of other avenues to try
> also.
> 
> Thanks for the offer of the computer, but I don't need it. I know this
> 486 will run RH7.2, several versions of Slackware, and then I could
> always go one of the floppy router distributions if necessary.
> 
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> --
> Doug
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