Dawa13
09-07-2003, 08:51 PM
I just got a 486 laptop. basically to run a few things on the mobile. but it have no cd rom drive or any working os. What distro would be best for it?
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CaptainPinko
09-07-2003, 08:58 PM
search the forums or check distro watch there is a category for it there i belive too. one answer is peanut, another vector
serz
09-07-2003, 09:20 PM
Here (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=736981&sortby=replies&sortorder=descending) is a search in this forum for "486".
You can also check the main "Which distro" thread in /dev/random.
You can also check the main "Which distro" thread in /dev/random.
Dawa13
09-07-2003, 09:32 PM
i did a search and noticed i mention it has no working os. the os got corrupted. there is no unpacking available to me. i searched and everything needed unpacked on the 486 and not my desktop.
sharth
09-07-2003, 09:36 PM
you can install slack and debian with floppies.
Dawa13
09-07-2003, 09:40 PM
most of them were based off of slackware 3.5 I think. but needed un tarred from an os. which mine consistes of 04 04 04 04 04 04 and it really annoys me
Dawa13
09-07-2003, 09:55 PM
i got coyote linux. put it in and installed it.
put # startx and the computer shut off.
put # startx and the computer shut off.
je_fro
09-07-2003, 09:55 PM
http://www.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/
to install Debian.
to install Debian.
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
09-07-2003, 09:56 PM
Originally posted by Dawa13
most of them were based off of slackware 3.5 I think. but needed un tarred from an os. which mine consistes of 04 04 04 04 04 04 and it really annoys me
No, you can boot and install Debian and Slackware, the latest versions, from floppies.
If you have another machine that can write the floppies, you can install a version of Linux. I'm not normally one to keep a thread like this going, but what are the exact specs on the machine?
I had a Compaq laptop (an Aero or Contura, I forget), and it had a 486/33 mhz proccessor, 8MB RAM, and it had no OS on it whatsoever. It only had one PCMCIA slot, and I could either run the floppy drive off of it, or I could run the NIC, but not both.
I ended up borrowing a parallel port CD-ROM drive from a friend, making the Slackware pport.i parallel port-enabled kernel, and installing from the CD. Even though it only had 270MB of disk space, it ran quite nicely.
most of them were based off of slackware 3.5 I think. but needed un tarred from an os. which mine consistes of 04 04 04 04 04 04 and it really annoys me
No, you can boot and install Debian and Slackware, the latest versions, from floppies.
If you have another machine that can write the floppies, you can install a version of Linux. I'm not normally one to keep a thread like this going, but what are the exact specs on the machine?
I had a Compaq laptop (an Aero or Contura, I forget), and it had a 486/33 mhz proccessor, 8MB RAM, and it had no OS on it whatsoever. It only had one PCMCIA slot, and I could either run the floppy drive off of it, or I could run the NIC, but not both.
I ended up borrowing a parallel port CD-ROM drive from a friend, making the Slackware pport.i parallel port-enabled kernel, and installing from the CD. Even though it only had 270MB of disk space, it ran quite nicely.
Dawa13
09-08-2003, 04:39 PM
basically specs are. crap. no clue. but i can write the disks on a different computer but all of them require being unpacked to the hard drive. which requires an os.
je_fro
09-08-2003, 04:41 PM
They don't require an os...
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