Re: 386--which Linux?

From: Walter Mautner (nextnews.15.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:54:56 +0100

Happy Thoughts wrote:

> Don't laugh! I have an old...very old...Packard Bell 386/20 that I'm
> toying with the idea of installing Linux on. It's been so long since
> I've booted it up (7 or 8 years), that I don't really recall offhand
> what its specs are.

And you have not tried to boot it up once before asking here?
Maybe there has been a mouse nesting inside, eating up one or the other
cable ... or you risk a dust explosion when turning the thing on again ;-)
Or the fan/harddrive bearings are rusty and your drives won't spin up at
all.
In fact, you can try a non-gui linux booting from floppies, but no recent
mainstream distribution (recommended for beginners) will run on that
dinosaur. 

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