RE: Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

Why not a virtual machine with pci-delegation?

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From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Fernando Cassia
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 10:37 AM
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Subject: Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

I wonder if there's any Fedora (1.0? :) that would run on a 486sx-33 system with 8MB of RAM.

I don't need a GUI. My intent is to connect an ancient SCSI based scanner through a PCMCIA SCSI interface, and run SANE on it. Perhaps invoking SANE over SSH... from a modern system...

Or maybe I'd need to look at another distro with current kernel that still supports ISA-PCMCIA? (DSL?)

Thanks in advance...
FC
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Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM,   wrote:
> Why not a virtual machine with pci-delegation?

I'm not following how that would work...

The idea is to have the ancient scanner with automatic document
feeder, inside a cabinet, connected through scsi to the 486sx, and SSH
from my current destop to the 486sx, and initiate a scan...

The cabinet is already wired with Ethernet...

I don have any SCSI adapters on my system nor I want to buy any (or
firewire-scsi or USB-scsi adapters for that matter). If I can make it
work with what I have (486sx laptop sitting on a shelf), and
pcmcia-scsi adapter, that'd be better. :)

FC

Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

[Jan Willies]

2011/3/8 Fernando Cassia :
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM,   wrote:
> > Why not a virtual machine with pci-delegation?
>
> I'm not following how that would work...
>
> The idea is to have the ancient scanner with automatic document
> feeder, inside a cabinet, connected through scsi to the 486sx, and SSH
> from my current destop to the 486sx, and initiate a scan...
>
> The cabinet is already wired with Ethernet...
>
> I don have any SCSI adapters on my system nor I want to buy any (or
> firewire-scsi or USB-scsi adapters for that matter). If I can make it
> work with what I have (486sx laptop sitting on a shelf), and
> pcmcia-scsi adapter, that'd be better. :)

You could try OpenWrt.

Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Jan Willies  wrote:
> You could try OpenWrt.

I associated OpenWRT with ARM and MIPS embedded systems (Wi-FI
APs-Routers...) didn immediately think of it wrt x86.

Thanks for the idea....

FC

Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 08:23:12 -0200,
  Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Jan Willies  wrote:
> > You could try OpenWrt.
>
> I associated OpenWRT with ARM and MIPS embedded systems (Wi-FI
> APs-Routers...) didn immediately think of it wrt x86.
>
> Thanks for the idea....

OpenWRT is probably the best start. If that doesn't work you could try old
RH releases. I have RH 6.2 on a couple of old laptops that have 24 MB of
memory. I don't know that 8 would be enough for RH 6, but you could try
an older one if needed.