On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:56, Joel wrote: > > ... > > I was given a pentium something or other box over the weekend and I > > want to install Fedora on. It only has like 24 megs of <proprietary> > > ram. If there is such a thing as a pci ram card maybe it might merit > > throwing it in there. > > > > I would be interested to knowing who out there has loaded FC > > successfully on a really old machine, what you did to overcome > > problems, etc. Cruddiest hardware contest! :) At what point does > > the camels back break with regards to cruddy hardware? > > > > I can upgrade the hard drive (which is only 1g at this point). It'd > > be kinda cool to get FC on it and not have to go to a 'tiny' distro. > > Resources: floppy drive, no cdrom, pci slots. > > > (Putting on my asbestos suit, just in case ...) > > Not sure if you would be interested, but have you heard of netbsd and/or > openbsd? (Takes a little thinking ahead, but I've done netbsd on 8M RAM, > 160M HD on a 33MHz 68030 CPU, for example.) (netbsd.org, opensd.org) > > -- > Joel <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ I never got it to work, but that was years ago.
