Red Hat 8 on 486/66

k4zau · 02-25-2003, 06:24 PM

I want to put Red Hat 8 on a 486/66 with 8MB RAM and a 420MB hard drive. Has anyone tried this? Is it worth the effort? I am also considering Small Linux as an alternative, if RH8 is too big.

Also I was wondering how small the install would be if I only put gcc, x, and a console e-mail program (Pine & Pico maybe).

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

d33pdream · 02-25-2003, 06:28 PM

Give Slackware (www.slackware.org) a try. It's a much nicer distro for older systems, It can run on a i386 if need be. Redhat 8 is built for more recent machines

born4linux · 02-25-2003, 06:31 PM

RHL8? nope. u won't be able to install it. ye - try slackware. it would definitely run it.

or an older RH release - maybe 6.2 to 7.1 would do.

michaelk · 02-25-2003, 06:41 PM

http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/

nakkaya · 02-25-2003, 08:15 PM

you can try the dist on floppys but why cant he install it on a 420 mb disk space without gui and trimming down packages it can be possible isnt it

k4zau · 02-27-2003, 11:36 PM

ok thanks everyone
i'm probably going to go for Slackware