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Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?
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gentoo. i'm not even gonna look this up but i'd be surprised if immolo hasn't installed in that platform yet ;)
I installed gentoo on a pentium D it took 5 days to compile and to setup, with distcc.
Why not cross-compile it?
Cause i wanted to see how long it would take
There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).
The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was... booting after many weeks. They won big time.
I did some similar stuff on a Raspberry Pi. I had to NFS mount my desktop and make a swapdisk on the NFS mount to have enough RAM to build. It wasn't fast, but it did eventually work.
I wonder if there's a Gentoo binpkg host for i486 specifically, since it might almost be practical then. (Or you could set up your own.)