Comments on: Arch Linux on a 150Mhz Pentium MMX

By: More goodies for ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho

More goodies for ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:14:01 +0000

[...] have the luxury of doing that with ConnochaetOS, much like I did with archlinux-i586.org, because — for reasons I don’t altogether understand — these Arch-based systems [...]

By: I must work harder: DSL at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

I must work harder: DSL at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:52:05 +0000

[...] This is not the first time I have used Damn Small Linux on the Mebius. Since June or so, when I bought it, I’ve used DSL as a sort of backup or interloper distro, usually for the purpose of [...]

By: A short interlude for blasphemy « Motho ke motho ka botho

A short interlude for blasphemy « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:54:07 +0000

[...] so if you have a weak constitution, you might want to look away: I installed Windows 2000 on the Sharp Mebius and I am happy to say, performance was pretty [...]

By: More distros at 150Mhz, both good and bad « Motho ke motho ka botho

More distros at 150Mhz, both good and bad « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:22:25 +0000

[...] Leave a Comment Arch Linux isn’t the only thing I have installed or used on the Mebius, since I brought it home a week ago. I did a few trial runs with other distros and OSes, although [...]

By: The myth of Arch Linux and the i586 « Motho ke motho ka botho

The myth of Arch Linux and the i586 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:54:06 +0000

[...] Linux and the i586 Published 2010/06/24 Arch Linux Leave a Comment Jared asked the right question yesterday, when I proclaimed I had Arch Linux running on a Pentium MMX machine. How does a distro [...]

By: DePingus

DePingus — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:32:54 +0000

Great find! Your blog always inspires me to slim things down around my home. So today I woot’ed a Seagate FreeAgent DockStar. Which is basically a little usb hub with a 1.2ghz ARM cpu, 128mb ram, a gigabit connection, and very very low power consumption (like the SheevaPlug and TonidoPlug with less ram).

I know, that sounds like a beast next to your new toy. But the reason I bought it is because it can run PlugBox Linux, which is based on good old ArchLinux! I plan for this take take the place of the 2 servers I have now. I was a little worried about the 128mb of ram (for rtorrent), but then I remembered your blog and your little rtorrent server.

So… thanks for these experiments!

By: jared

jared — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:26:29 +0000

AWESOME! Thanks so much. Keep up the good work.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +0000

Right. A 133Mhz P1 is an i586 machine, and Arch is configured for i686 and up. You’ll need to take a look at archlinux-i586.org to get started.

By: jared

jared — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:11:20 +0000

I’m attempting to install Arch on a PI 133 Mhz with 80 mb RAM, but arch complains about the kernel type at boot. I’m guessing it’s due to the fact the Arch image is i686 and not i586. How do you get Arch installed on a i586? If you can point me in the right direction I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:08:15 +0000

This one in particular came from a local recycling shop, which really just buys and resells laptops if they’re in good condition. Not to overgeneralize, but for what I’ve seen the Japanese consumer seems keen to buy new and clean things, and not old, secondhand ones. So the market is strong with generally flawless machines with only one previous owner, at very low prices. Antiques like this are virtually unwanted, and therefore dirt cheap. But I may be off the mark in my observations.

I don’t know where you live Zoev, but perhaps someone can suggest a source for you, depending on your geography.