On Monday 31 January 2005 02:30 pm, James Wilkinson wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without rebuilding > > pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will > > abandon even that. > > I doubt it. Apparently at least some of the VIA CPUs that are being sold > today don't count as a 686 as far as gcc is concerned. > > Incidentally, a 486SX doesn't include an FPU, and Fedora kernels (not > surprisingly) don't include emulation code. One other thing for the > Original Poster to remember. > > James. Minor point, but the OP said that he has a 486DX4-S cpu, which was a far more powerful critter than the 486SX stuff. The 486DX4-S was an AMD product; the "S" indicates that the cpu used intel-style power management (whatever that means). I once had a 486DX4-120 on an AOpen motherboard, and it was stronger than houses -- virtually crash free under DR-DOS, Windows 3.11 and even Win 95. It benchmarked at about the same as a Pentium 90. I suppose that it is possible to run one of the text-only 486-specific Linux distros on it, but it would take far more patience than I have. -- cmg
