On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:51 am, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:28, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > Many distros these days are compiled for 586 and up. Running an older
> > distro is an option, but you don't get a smooth upgrade path or security
> > updates.
>
> You don't need to do that, just find one that is not, or recompile it by
> optimizing it for 486. It's only one flag change. The security updates are
> going to be minimal as you don't have much that can be updated on it
> anyway.
If you have a 486 chip you also have a 486 mother board and 486 peripherals
like CD readers.
We have a 586 here in the office that I in the process of converting to a
server.
First issue I encounter was that my current distributions come on DVD. The
motherboard and bios refuse to accept a DVD read writer.
So, I downloaded SuSE 10.0, Mandriva 2006, and Fedora Core 4 in CD format.
Promply found that none of these would recognize the CD reader. Replaced CD
reader with spare. Then found that none of these distributions would run
after loading. Installation failed half way through. Pulled out an older
Mandrake 9.2 CD edition and installed that. System is now fully operational
with Mandrake 9.2. Could update to Mandrake download 2006 but see no reason
to as that brings nothing to the party so am sticking with Mandrake 9.2 for
this box.
SOTL
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