Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware,gzip, bz2, and pentium op)
Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Brian White wrote:
> > > Anyway there are many people using Debian on 386 and 486 machines :(,
> >
> > I'm not so sure of that any more... We use a 486-25 at work with 8MB
>
> running debian hamm on 386sx/20, 8m, 116m disk
>
<AOL>
slink on dx2/66 (overdrive actually) w. 32 mb, potato on dx1/33 w. 8mb
</AOL>
Once I dumped the apt cache (potato, with apt-move) of a k6-233 with 160
MB Ram and plenty of disk-space on a local archive, and reduced the
packages list to about 250 (coming from what? 3600??), the 'available'
and 'status' lists shrunk accordingly, and the dx/33 runs potato just
fine now...
Filip
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