Topic: Personal Version - Light Weight - 486

[Marcel]

I love what you folks are doing. As far as wishes go, do you have any plans to implement a light weight "personal" version which could say, fit on a 486 with limited resources?

[Paul Miller]

Marcel wrote:
>
> I love what you folks are doing. As far as wishes go, do you
> have any plans to implement a light weight "personal" version
> which could say, fit on a 486 with limited resources?

I think this requires minor tweaks on your part.  I took the e-smith 4.1.1 drive I had installed on a Pentium 200. Then I moved it to a 486 running at 33mz and, though it took a while, the kernel recognized that it was a 486.  

It works fine!  RH 7 is i386 compatible on up to i786 or something like that.  

Also, as long as you use i386 compatible rpms you can use a lot of stuff found on rpmfind.net as well.  I have found that some won't install.  But, if they install they have all worked for me.  YMMV.

There is an issue with ISA NIC cards you have to work through but it has been documented on one of these forums. I haven't tested this but I believe the drivers for ISA NIC cards are availble from the install console.

Hope this helps,

Paul Miller

[Doug Nordwall]

We have several guys in our LUG who have installed e-smith on 486's with 32 megs of ram and small hard drives. The main issue is usually just getting it to find a cdrom