I have a further project lined up that I need to bring back from the grave (

I have a Digital Equipment Corporation Celebris XL590 Workstation, originally this was a Pentium 90 machine, but has been upgraded by replacing the processor daughter-board with a dual socket variant which has Dual Pentium 133 Processors downclocked to 120MHZ (the board limit), effectively making it a Celebris XL 5120 DP model. There is 128MB ram (Possibly upgradable to 192MB). It currently has a Matrox PCI graphics card (which I'll keep), and an intel PCI Nic, which is being removed and replaced with an ISA NIC to free up a PCI slot. There are 3 PCI slots, unfortunately one is rendered useless by the location of the Processor daughter-board. I will likely use the freed up PCI slot for a USB card.

It is currently not bootable due to SCSI issues (1 bad 2GB drive is unplugged, so the onboard scsi hangs). It currently has no CD drive, but I have a spare IDE DVD drive and cable which I will install, along with an old 60GB ide hard drive.

Once I have ironed out the configuration issues and get it bootable (if that is possible), is it viable to install antiX with Processor specs that low?

Thanks

Rich

stated in the second sentence of the antix wiki main page, the answer is no.

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Might be a candidate for Slitaz or Tiny Core with a light browser like Dillo or UZBL.

SliTaz GNU/Linux is supported on all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible processors. The Live CD has four variants of SliTaz, requiring from 192 MB of RAM for the Core system to 48 MB for a text mode and X Window System. SliTaz can even run in 16 MB of RAM and a little swap memory.

The minimum requirements for the current release of TinyCore are:

Intel i486DX or above.
10Mb free disc space (7Mb for MicroCore)
48Mb RAM (36Mb for MicroCore)
CD/DVD drive or USB port (-for installation media)
Can be run directly from a USB Stick or Live CD/DVD.

fatmac. A member here. May be able to comment on Free BSD on that old rig.
I am still learning BSD when time permits. So I am no expert yet.


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Funny how we did not make the cut in my above link. Just to show. Nothing is written in stone online from day to day.

Just wondering? If ReactOS may be a option since it is based on older Windows operating systems.

Well, a stab in the dark from me.

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Might work. Might not.

You might as well give it a shot. I have been running antix in CLI mode on a p1 in the past. It will barely run anything gui based, however running apache / samba / nfs, etc all seemed to function ok. You might be able to do a little better seeing how you would be running dual cpus. I had around the same ram on mine which was definitely a limitation....

Really put in the disk... you probably already have it so it would either run or not run.
Actually I might be trying to do something similar sometime in the future with an old p1 dynamometer......

Regarding BSD, (certainly in text mode).


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I'm definitely going to give it a go.

I have new floppy and IDE cables on the way, plus a SCSI terminator so I can test and try and get it booting. If it boots properly, I have a cheap source for the extra ram.

Digital Archaeology __{{emoticon}}__

Thanks

Rich