Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS for *very* old server hardware
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 10 06:33:37 UTC 2014
On 06/08/2014 12:14 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently on a Linux training mission for a company in South France,
> and just for the fun of it, I resurrected a very old server from the
> server cabinet and put Slackware Linux 14.1 32-bit on it. The server is
> a Dell Poweredge 1300, roughly 15 (!) years old, equipped with a
> Pentium-III 500 MHz processor, 110 MB RAM and 3 x 9 SCSI disks (which I
> configured with a software RAID 5). Slackware runs very nice on this old
> dinosaur, we managed to get DHCPD, Bind, NTP, Squid+SquidGuard, Apache
> and some other things to run on it.
>
> As far as I know (and please correct me if I'm wrong), newer versions of
> Ubuntu don't boot on these very old processors. Now here's my question :
> are there eventually some alternate installation CDs of Ubuntu Server
> (I'm interested in the 12.04 LTS version) that would boot on this old
> machine?
This might help (I'll use 14.04 but you can follow the same chain on the
first link for 12.04):
<https://help.ubuntu.com/>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/index.html>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/index.html?
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SupportedArchitectures>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/index.html>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/index.html>
>
> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
>
> Niki
>
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