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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,17:24 QUOTE
is it possible to run DSL on this dinosaure ? :)

thanx a lot !
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,18:36 QUOTE
The 486s in this page have twice as much ram, but it would be an interesting test to see if 8M is enough to run DSL from the hard drive on a 486 with a good swamp partition.

It should work for sure in text mode, and Links is a good text web browser, but I wonder how the kdrive X server plus Dillo would work for you.
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,21:17 QUOTE
Pentium 100 , 64 MB DRAM, Integrated graphic card (1 MB),
210 MB Disk -\
/dev/hda1 FAT32 52MB (KNOPPIX)
/dev/hda2 SWAP 80MB
/dev/hda3 FAT32 80MB (filetool.1st,backup.gz)
Using like rdesktop client > Win2003enterprise server...but works well as Office computer...

I made alive 5 old P133 with 32 MB and 1GB disk in school. Reward was sweet :)
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Posted: Feb. 18 2004,10:13 QUOTE
thanks, i will try it, but the dinausaur dont have neither CDROM drive nor ETHERNET card, how can i install it ??

thanks
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Posted: Feb. 18 2004,15:16 QUOTE
You could try the following: take out the disk, transfer it to another pc (disconnecting all other disks), install DSL, transfer the disk back and boot. (You may have to do some post install setup to reflect the hardware on your 486.)
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