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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Coldnorth on November 07, 2003, 09:45:45 AM
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...I've been searching this out for about 5 days now... Basically, I've set up 5.5 on a 486 wwith 20 megs of ram, and it won't even load the server manager for me. It makes me want to throw it out the window - which I probably should. :D I'm trying to put together a demo box so I can show my boss that we don't have to suffer through our current small-enterprise dialup crap IT situation anymore... :D
Anyways, I don't care how far back I have to go - is there a distro of SME / E-Smith that will live on a 486 decently without crying like a little girl?
Thanks.
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Try 4.1.2, I had it running on a 486 66MHz box with 16Mb RAM.
It was slow but it worked.
Regs
Ray
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Thanks, Ray. That was what I figured. Now I just have to find it. (rsync, hopefully :D)
Cheers!
Jonathan
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Anyone know were i can download SME
4.1.2
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Try:
http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/e-smith/releases/4.1.2/iso/
Dean
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Be sure to apply the errata packages for RH6.2/RH7.0 to 4.1.2, that ISO is very old and insecure. You'll want to concenrate on the RH6.2 errata and supplement it with the RH7.0 errata packages.
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You also might want to reconsider showing this to your boss on a little old 486
you are trying to get him to dump a slow dialup connection, how is it going to go over when you go to show him the server manager and it takes over a minute to load?
try to get a pII 400 or so, the server manager will be very snappy and responsive, heck i had mine on a p200 and it took 30 seconds to a minute to load the server manager, on my pII 400, takes about 5 seconds.
maybe you have a computer you can just throw a empty hard drive into and install SME to do the presentation?
good luck
steve
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www.cosuk.com
you can pick up some good cheap second hand pc's.
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if you don't want that your presentation fails,
forget the 486, it will be tooooo slow.
also forget SME4.1.2, it is very insecure.
better use a PII-400 and SME 5.6.
remember to use a quick harddisk (with cache) and minimum 256 MB RAM.
cheers klaus
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Thanks for everyone's help. I'm going to try to find a faster PC, but if not I think I'll use my everyday Windows box P1 133 with 32 megs of ram to run the demo, since it's WAY faster. :)
...As I had said, server-manager won't load... I guess I should have also asked this:
It loads the main window (right frame), but has a DNS error on the navigation frame. I was able to access it through admin on the box itself, à la text-mode-noframes... Is there any reason it wouldn't load the navigation frame - or anything I might be able to fix?
...I only ask because I'm halfway through the 23-hour download of 4.1.2 on my 64kbit cable modem, and I want something to do until tomorrow.
Thanks again!
Jonathan
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Coldnorth,
486??? I have thrown away MANY functioning systems between 133 and 200mhz. I find that 300mhz is necessary to be pratical these days (and keep my sanity). I have an AMD K6-2 300 chip I will send to your for free if you want it...you need a super socket 7 board that works with the K6. It includes the heat sink and fan, but the fan is old, so you might consider a buying a new fan. If your interested, reply in forum and I will send you an email for your mailing address.
ryan