On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:17 am, John wrote: > Oleg wrote: > >On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:09 am, Daniel Freedman wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: > >>>I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk space. > >>>Is this possible? > > > >Why? AFAIK there are organizations giving out i486s and Pentiums for free. > > If that is true, and also because, e.g. Wal-Mart sells reasonably modern > > new Lindows computers for $300 [1], i386s are simply not worth your time.
Yes.. I run my own small software company and have better computers by far plus a lab full of LTSP-based thin-clients. But all those machines are being used to capacity and I want to experiment with Debian. I do have an old PowerPC Macintosh with 64MB of RAM and about two small SCSI drives. Maybe I should use it. The i386 wouldn't seem to boot off the floppy using the root.bin image. Matthew > > Assuming: > > (1) He's close to Wal-Mart. Closest one to here is about 8000km away I > believe. > (2) He has $300(USD) to spare on what might just be 'a cool idea' > (3) The time cost to get to walmart + $300(USD) < the time cost to get > 386 out of box in cupboard > (4) He qualifies as a person/organisation that would get a free > 486/Pentium. > > If 2 or more of the above are not true, then a 386 could well be worth > his time. And a great way to learn about Debian, and about running > without an uber bloated 2GHz 2GbRAM monster. > > To the original poster, yes it is possible if you can live without bells > and whistles. Depending on what you want to do with it it might even run > very very well. > > John P Foster (who is still not the guy who makes Foster's Lager). -- Anything that can be logically explained, can be programmed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
