Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.
Shit, I’ve thrown out stuff several generations newer than that because it was too old.
Is nobody gonna ask?!? Why do you have a pentium 2? I like old hardware as much or more than the next guy but man that’s old. And this from a guy who has a working Commodore 64 🤣
I’ve got a 500mhz Celeron from the P3 days, it runs OS/2 and has an ISA EPROM burner card in it.
I never even thought to ask “why”…
Some time ago I scalvanged some old hardware my old school was gonna throw out.
throwing Linux on ancient hardware is a time honored tradition
NetBSD
Won’t work with much hardware
Works with plenty of hardware, especially something that would run on such a platform.
I have found it to lack support for WiFi and video acceleration
You want wifi and video acceleration on a P2?
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