Subj : Re: Slapping Unix on 486 machines - you too?
To   : paulie420
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sun Feb 25 2024 21:59:25

  Re: Re: Slapping Unix on 486 machines - you too?
  By: paulie420 to Ogg on Sun Feb 25 2024 07:28:55

 > It's looking like NetBSD is the best candidate for a usable system; even the
 > newest 10.0 supports i386 and floppy booting.

Cheers, Paulie - that's good to know...

As I sit here on a gen 1 Pentium laptop which I ended up installing Alpine onto because it was the only one I could find that would install on that old of a chip :(

Maybe I'm being super thick but it seems like half the packages aren't available in Alpine for x86 32 bit. I'm jamming apk files on via serial because it can't figure out my PCMCIA network card and there's no lrzsz package available so I'm having to hand-uu-encode-decode everything. Got to say, not loving it at the moment!

Cheers,


BobW
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