P1 128RAM

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:20:05PM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> * If a 'modern' distro is going to be used on an old Pentium I system,
> then he'll need to use an 'alternate' install CD as opposed to the
> livecd installs.

Debian's install disc works on a 486 and up.  Seems quite modern,
especially given everyone else seems to be based on it these days.

> * I would suggest rolling your own kernel. Even though modern distros
> try to cover all bases by just compiling a million things as modules,
> some of those modules are loaded by default, whether you want them or
> not. (Case in point: When I insert the kernel AES modules in Ubuntu to
> mount my secure swap space, I get a couple of error messages about
> modules that were not able to load. Tracking these down I found out that
> they are modules for embedded crypto chips on Via Nano/etc
> miniITX/nanoITX boards. The reason that I'm getting errors is that they
> are installed be default and try to load when the kernel AES modules are
> loaded, and fail when they can't communicate with the hardware they are
> for... If these modules were able to load without the hardware being
> present I would have irrelavent modules taking up memory space)

I would stick with the distribution kernel.

> * Debian (as already suggested) or Slackware would probably be good
> choices though Debian is probably the easier choice.
> You'd definitely have to use 'alternate' install CDs for most distros
> out there nowadays. I would probably suggest even rolling your own
> kernel so that you only are using what you need. Most common 'modern'
> distros have tons of crap compiled in or set to load as default modules
> that you probably don't need to make that bad boy run.

Plain old debian installer simply works.  I still run it on my 486/66.
No alternate thingy to worry about.

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Len Sorensen
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