486 compatible distro?

[stu]

Can someone please tell me what distro of linux will work on a 486SX 33mhz processor. It doesn't boot to cd rom. It doesn't find the cdrom because it is on some type of IO board thing. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[ph34r]

I'd go with Slackware. Even if you can't get your cd going for install, you can install off floppies. Heck, you can even install it on a 486sx33 with 4mb of ram, if you are patient and read the 4bm Laptop howto.

[Strike]

All of them should work equally well except for Mandrake, which only works on Pentiums and up.

[cs25x]

tomsrbt and the small floppy distributions.
But tom is good.
There is also mu linux.
ftp.ibiblio.org distributions is a good place
you could also search for small linux distributions on www.alltheweb.com (http://www.alltheweb.com) or topclick.com
The simplest complete distro to install is peanut, if you can download 60M. Once again ibiblio.org.
The small distro people usually run a 2.0 kernel
peanut 8.1 runs 2.2.18 and 8.2 has a 2.4 pre
The peanut help board is down for a while but if you run setup like it asks and run lilo after it finishes, before you reboot, all should be well.
Oh. there is a difference in disk space required, peanut will fit onto 170M ( just ) with a bit left over for you to use. Some of the small distros dont use your hard drive at all.