Re: 486 SX

[Michel Loos <loos@qt1.iq.usp.br>]

Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu:
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote:
> 
>     hello,
>     I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX 
>     (33Mz, 25Mz,  hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) 
>     before they go to the rubbish.
> 
> It will be a really painful and slow task... but it'll work... provided
> they have some
> decent amount of memory (8 being the bare minimum... 16 works good)
> 
I must disagree here, worked for me on 386 with 4MB RAM, just forget
about any graphical interface and it really works fine.

Michel.

>     I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail 
>     (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..)
>     but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines
>     and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two
>     questions:
>     is it possible to do it ? And if it's possible how can I do this.
>     Can someone help me or point the documentation in this matter.
> 
> Just did it a few weeks ago on my old 486/66 :) Just dd all the rescue
> and base disk images
> from the installation cd to 1.44M floppies... the installation guides
> itself.
> 
> After getting network online just do the rest from there... it's faster
> 
> Mark