Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware,gzip, bz2, and pentium op)
With apt-get used to upgrade instead of dselect, it might not be all that
painful....depends on how much junk is running.
Dave Bristel
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Brian White wrote:
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:26:32 -0500
> From: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
> To: Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>
> Cc: Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@zednet.lv>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware,gzip, bz2, and pentium op)
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> > > > 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
>
> Now upgrade that to Potato. Go on... I dare ya! <grin> If you start
> now, you might be done before the Y2K bugs make the power go out. ;-)
>
> > > of RAM and 80MB of disk. It runs a fine firewall/dial-up server. In
> > > fact, the only thing it _can't_ do is _upgrade_! Debian has gotten
> > > sooo big, that I have to make a 4 to 8MB swapfile (8MB swap partition)
> > > just to run dpkg, which is difficult on the limited disk space. Dselect
> > > takes about 20 mins just to bring up the selection screen.
> > >
> > > Of course, I have a 486dx2-66 with 64MB of ram and 2GB disk that runs
> > > Debian just fine. I doubt there are many 386s out there with more
> > > than the first system, though.
>
> Brian
> ( bcwhite@pobox.com )
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