Re: [gNewSense-users] old 486 machine bombed

[Karl Goetz]

vogelrl wrote:
> My wife wants me to throw out the 486 machine that has been in the
> basement for a long time. It has a copy of Red Hat (fedora 4) loaded
> onto it, which runs ok. When booting it says something about an old
> bios, nor does it have a lot of memory.
>
> So I tried booting the gnusense live cd and got, after a minute or two,
> this message:
>   
You have an icicles chance in hell of installing gns on a 486. after 
all, minimal ram requirement for the install cd is 192mb (its a live cd)
kk

>         squashfs: version 3.0prerelease (2006/1/24) Phillip Lougher
>
> I have no clue what this means. Probably is time to throw the machine
> out. I'll try again with a newer, faster model...but, who knows, maybe
> you're interested.
>
> Bob
>
>   

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Karl Goetz
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