Is there a distro that will run on this?

[RenoZack]

I just dug up an old computer and was looking into maybe putting Linux on it and playing around with it.

I was wondering if maybe there was a distro out there that would fit on this computer?

Specs:

Laser Pal 386SX Unity Model
Intel 80386sx Processor
1MB RAM
40MB Hard Drive
3 1/2" Floppy
Modem

Thanks for your help!

[myshkin]

wow, thats really ancient. maybe vector or slack will do the job?

[LinuxLuke]

with a 40 meg HD, and 1 meg of RAM... it's unlikely... maybe a firewall or router distro... but even then, with only 1 meg of RAM... you will not get X11 on it...

[michaelk]

You might find something here. But with only 1mb on a 386sx it doesn't look to good.

http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/

[JohnT]

Upgrading your ram and finding an old 2gig HD to replace the present one you could run Slack, but the firewall route might be best.

[mage492]

Well, you MIGHT try MuLinux. You'd have to bump it up to 8 Mb, though, which I don't know if you have the slots for... Sorry, don't know too much about non-Apple hardware (I finally found a USE for non-Apple hardware, you see...)!

[bskahan]

no

try netbsd; it runs my toaster quite nicely.

seriously though, no, no _distro_ will run on that. linux might, start hacking, the time you spend making it work will be gerater than the value of a pentium 100 with 32 megs of ram.