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

Robert Myers rbmyersusa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 19:48:50 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?)
>
You could probably knock on doors and get better hardware than that
around here, and people would be more than happy to get rid of it.
Don't you know anyone like that?

Robert.


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