Hi, Richard Atterer wrote: > [attempting to clear a little bit of the backlog of unanswered > debian-cd mails...:-] > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:34:43PM +0000, Arthur Schuchter wrote: > > my problem..I want to use Linux Debian on a I486 33MHz 4MB RAM !! > > maschine, which distribution would you suggest ? Is it possible with > > this distribution, > > Debian might by now be the only distribution whose binaries still run > on pre-Pentium processors, so in principle it is possible to use it on > such an old machine. > > However, 4MB is really *very* little memory, and I guess the HD is > also really small. Unless you're an experienced Linux user, I wouldn't > try installing Debian on the machine - you'd have to resort to all > kinds of tricks to get the installer to run, and maybe you'd even have > to compile a custom kernel. He could use slink or even an older release from http://archive.debian.org :-) Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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