Linux distro for 486

Drunkalot · 07-07-2005, 11:41 AM

I need a linux distribution that works with a 486 dx4 100 Mhz with 16Mb of ram and 300 Mb HD...

I tried red hat 7.3 but doesnt work.

thx...

stalefries · 07-07-2005, 08:22 PM

You're not going to get anything with a GUI, that's for sure.

Michael Johnson · 07-07-2005, 11:02 PM

Use a live-cd distro. and mount you HD for saving anything. You could mount it as /home.

ctkroeker · 07-11-2005, 11:19 AM

mulinux
Basic linux
slackware
DeLi
Feather
Vector (older vesion)
and tons of others.

slackMeUp · 07-14-2005, 10:30 AM

Slackware will run fine.

Just make sure to create a swap partition.

It would be CLI only though, but hey, with 'screen' and other programs... that's not too bad.

ctkroeker · 07-15-2005, 01:59 PM

Here
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you can find soem answers.

DAChristen29 · 07-23-2005, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by stalefries
You're not going to get anything with a GUI, that's for sure.

says who? my first box, which was 33 mhz, 32 mb ram and a 120 mb hard drive ran redhat 5.0 with fvwm i think the window manager was. maybe it was ice, but it was going for that windows 95 look. x worked fine.

redhat 5 or 6 should work, but to stay current try slackware.

tomdkat · 07-23-2005, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DAChristen29
says who? my first box, which was 33 mhz, 32 mb ram and a 120 mb hard drive ran redhat 5.0 with fvwm i think the window manager was. maybe it was ice, but it was going for that windows 95 look. x worked fine.

Yep. Getting a desktop environment to run will be challenging but a window manager without desktop env should run fine in 16MB.

Peace....

ozar · 07-24-2005, 09:54 PM

BeatrIX might work for you:

http://www.watsky.net/