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01-18-2008, 06:37 PM
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 Looking for distro for old (i486) laptop hi there, i'm looking for a distro that runs reasonably on an old i486 Siemens Laptop. the most pressing problem is that it should be possible to start a network-install without requiring a CD or Floppy as this laptop does not have either of those. a floppy drive exists, though but can only be connected via parport. the laptop is currently running on a botched (but nevertheless bootable) debian install, and can be connected to the internet via pcmcia and dsl. hardware is an old 486 with 16mb of ram. tia bernhard      |
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01-18-2008, 06:37 PM
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| Re: Looking for distro for old (i486) laptop Bernhard Bauer wrote: > hi there, > > i'm looking for a distro that runs reasonably on an old i486 Siemens Laptop. > the most pressing problem is that it should be possible to start a > network-install without requiring a CD or Floppy as this laptop does not > have either of those. > a floppy drive exists, though but can only be connected via parport. > the laptop is currently running on a botched (but nevertheless bootable) > debian install, and can be connected to the internet via pcmcia and dsl. > hardware is an old 486 with 16mb of ram.  I have a similar thing... not a laptop, but an a 486SX 33Mhz (I think). I had to fill in all of the cache memory (which wasn't cheap) and I think I got mine to 16M or so as well... This was about 4 years ago or so... (I think)... I used monkey linux via floppy drive AND then I updated it to SUSE 6.3. SLOW doesn't even begin to describe it. I hope you're successful, but people throw away Pentiums nowadays... not sure what you'd want out of a 486. Btw... SUSE is dog slow on my Pentium 233Mhz laptop with 96M... contemporary Linux just isn't for old hardware. I'd try something like Puppy Linux or DS Linux. Regards, Chris |
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