What distros support 486 machines?

[Bill Horne]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:28:53PM -0500, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bill Horne wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the info. Please tell me what components I can use
> > with RH9 on a 486: I'm running a small firewall, with Samba,
> > Apache, Mailman, and iptables. There's no GUI.
> > 
> > Bill
>
> Heh, I think you would be harder pressed to find hardware that WON'T work 
> with that configuration :)
> 
> Honestly, I think for the time and money you're going to spend looking for 
> parts for that machine (assuming you have CPU and mobo, you'll still need 
> a NIC, HD, and RAM), you may want to look at just ordering a cheapo PC 
> online.
> 
> check out http://www.computer-show.com/
> 
> I scored a dual-proc P3 for 120 bucks from them.

Joe,

This machine is currently in service, running RH 7.1. It has
all the NIC cards, etc. that it needs. I just swapped a 
2.2GB SCSI drive for a 40GB IDE, and tried to upgrade in 
the bargain, but RH 9 didn't like something in the mix.

I'm back to running 7.1, with the new drive. 

This is first and foremost a firewall, and I do a little 
mail, html, and PHP work with it. I agree that the setup 
isn't that great a load, but RH 9 says it's not compatible
with my hardware, even after I pare it down to bare essentials.

I'd stay with 7.1 if RH wasn't retiring it, but I like the 
up2date capability too much to do manual patches when 
new bugs are found.

Bill