On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:42:18PM -0400, Daniel Stehm wrote:
> Hey guys, having a problem here. I have a 486, 12 megs of RAM, 480
> megs on hard-drive, floppy (3 1/2), and a (gasp) 5 1/2 drive. I want
> to get ANY linux distro on it that I can, (wishing for debian) I dont
> care too much about packages, I just want some form of linux on here.
> I really dont want to take CD-Rom out of this and hook it up to the
> 486's motherboard, etc; etc; or connect them etc; Im hoping, if at all
> possible, from what ive heard its possible to install Linux onto a
> computer using floppies! Thats what im hoping to do, install Linux
> onto this 486 using floppies! If someone would mind telling me how to
> go about doing that, id appreciate it. E-mail is atomicx@exis.net
> Thanks alot
I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar configuration,
though I had about half the disk. What are you planning on *doing* with
the box -- it's pretty anaemic buy current standards.
There is an installation option for, IIRC, slink, which requires a boot
floppy and download image. If you can get a network connection
(existing DOS/Windows OS, Tom's Root Boot, LinuxCare Bootable Business
Card), you can D/L the image to the HD. It's then used in installation.
I'd partition you HD as follows:
/ 48 MB
swap 36-48 MB *
/tmp 16 MB
/var 48 MB
/usr 300 MB
/home 20 MB
* High relative to physical RAM, but low given typical task
requirements.
You don't have a lot of leeway, but this should give you a basic sever
setup with a few development packages (enough to build a kernel), and
possibly even X, though you'd be better of putting cliet support on this
box an running the display elsewhere.
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