On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:26, Thomas PARIS wrote: > On Sun Jan 5 at 08:45 (-0800), Josh Narins wrote: > > Does anyone know the oldest piece of machinery, still > > pingable, running Debian? What about not pingable? > > For a friend of mine I installed potato on a 386/4MB/100MB. Had to cheat > to do it, that is to put the hard drive in another computer as 4MB is > not enough to install potato. And now that it is installed it can't do > much as as soon as you log in it starts using the swap. But it does > pretty well what it's being used for : sharing an ADSL connection. And > of course it's nice now to know that I can say: I did it! ;) > > Oh and I don't know how old the computer is because he got it from > someone who was throwing it away. You know, you don't have to install Debian to do that. Rolling a customized system with exactly what you need and nothing else might be a better solution. I once made an Ethernet bridge box experimentally, from an old 486, doing that. It was fast compared to running a full distro. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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