On Monday 31 January 2005 02:30 pm, James Wilkinson wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without rebuilding pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will abandon even that.
I doubt it. Apparently at least some of the VIA CPUs that are being sold today don't count as a 686 as far as gcc is concerned.
Incidentally, a 486SX doesn't include an FPU, and Fedora kernels (not surprisingly) don't include emulation code. One other thing for the Original Poster to remember.
James.
Minor point, but the OP said that he has a 486DX4-S cpu, which was a far more powerful critter than the 486SX stuff. The 486DX4-S was an AMD product; the "S" indicates that the cpu used intel-style power management (whatever that means).
I once had a 486DX4-120 on an AOpen motherboard, and it was stronger than houses -- virtually crash free under DR-DOS, Windows 3.11 and even Win 95. It benchmarked at about the same as a Pentium 90. I suppose that it is possible to run one of the text-only 486-specific Linux distros on it, but it would take far more patience than I have.
-- cmg