Re: Woody on 486 problem

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Mirko Scurk wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running
Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I
thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have a
GUI, and doesn't need one.

If Sarge will run on that, I'm sure it will run a 486. I don't know why
someone would want to install Woody since it's about to be moved to the
archives. I can understand if someone was still running it, and was
afraid of upgrading.


I'm nt so sure that sarge installer will work with 16MB of RAM. I thought
that 32MB is minimum.

Perhaps I am mistaken. It is possible that the server in question has
64 MB of RAM. Right now it's not connected, and it's power supply was
"borrowed" for another machine and it has yet to be replaced. Without
opening the case, it's hard for me to tell.

One thing that I dislike about computers over the years is that the
hardware changes so rapidly. I have a computer with a dead motherboard
that has 768MB of RAM on it that I'm pretty sure is good, but I have no
other computer that uses those types of DIMMs. I can probably pick one
up from e-bay, but don't have need for another computer at the moment,
and if I do, I'll probably just build my own from newer components.

Oh well, I suppose if technology is going to evolve, older technology
must move aside. It's just that it happens so quickly. Moore's Law is
still in effect, much to the chagrin of greybeards like me. I can
remember the days when 16K of RAM was a lot.

Joe

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