Ubuntu on a 486?

[Hervé Fache]

Maybe readers of this thread will be interested to know the machine
specs too (not a 486, but close-ish):
- Mobile Pentium MMX at 233 MHz
- 96 MB RAM
- 4 GB disk (system uses less than 400 MB)

Hervé.

On 12/13/06, Hervé Fache <Herve at lucidia.net> wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > > server, too, with some restrictions: As of now, LTS won't even run on
> > > my server (62 MB RAM are the guilty party here). Do you see me
> > > protesting? No, I installed Sarge on it.
> >
> > You're kidding!? 62 MB RAM for a server install won't suffice for LTS?
> > Last time I installed Sarge it started up many more 'excess' services
> > than Ubuntu did. Server Ubuntu really can't work on 62 MB?
>
> My Ubuntu server installation uses about 51 MB, and that's with SSH,
> HTTP (with webmail), IMAP, SMTP and NTP servers + apt-cacher + dyndns
> client.
>
> I did have to install the 386 kernel as the generic was not working though...
>
> HTH,
> Hervé.
>