On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:29, Mike McCarty wrote: > I don't know of any which can run on a 486 in 16MB of RAM and no swap. > I've got a 486 (actually an AMD586) which I'd like to run Knoppix > or the like on. It has 16MB of RAM, but very little hard disc. It > has a 3GB HD partitioned into two FAT16 partitions, one of them > full, the other with 40MB free. I'd like to run almost any version > of Linux on there, for purposes of file transfer. It has an old > 10 Base 2, but I could probably put a 100 Base T on there, as it > has one PCI slot (IIRC). This would be the obvious place to start: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ but you might be able to get knoppix to load if you don't try to run X. Try 'knoppix 2' at the boot prompt with as old a version as you can find. If that works, you might be able to run as an xterminal with your desktop elsewhere by starting X with 'X -query server' where server is a more powerful box with XDCMP enabled. You'd have a better chance with 32M ram, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
