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timothy
on from the jamie-has-the-munchies dept.
punkmac writes "It's that time again to do the thing we all love to do, compile your shiny new kernel. This time its 2.4.20. The changelog can be found at the usual places, and please use a mirror for all your downloads"
It's a scary thing to do, but you would also benefit from recompiling glibc for the 486. The scary part is when you replace the old one, if you screw up your box stops working.
You should boot of a CD and mount your root volumne in/mnt on the ramdisk you're running when you do this - if you replace glibc on a running system and you break it, then you can't issue any commands anymore!
I have an old 486 laptop that I plan to install on sometime soon. I had originally intended to install Debian Woody, but Debian's minimum disk space after you've run dselect the first time is bigger than this thing's whole hard drive. Slackware doesn't have that problem.
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You should recompile your kernel to be optimized for 486 though. I'm not sure, but I think it could make a difference.
Here's where you get slackware.
It's a scary thing to do, but you would also benefit from recompiling glibc for the 486. The scary part is when you replace the old one, if you screw up your box stops working.
You should boot of a CD and mount your root volumne in /mnt on the ramdisk you're running when you do this - if you replace glibc on a running system and you break it, then you can't issue any commands anymore!
I have an old 486 laptop that I plan to install on sometime soon. I had originally intended to install Debian Woody, but Debian's minimum disk space after you've run dselect the first time is bigger than this thing's whole hard drive. Slackware doesn't have that problem.
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