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
