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I hope to deploy i486 linux in modern computer, can I boot my ryzen cpu computer with i686 boot disk, then install archlinux32, then move harddisk to real 486 machine? which file I should change? thanx.
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This is totally possible. You put the harddisk in your new computer, boot from the i686 CDROM, then you copy /etc/pacman.conf to say
/tmp/mypacman.conf. In there you set the Architecture to i486. Then you install with 'pacstrap -C /tmp/mypacman.conf' to the hard disk.
It should bootstrap a i486 version of Arch32. Then you move the hard disk to the old machine.
There are some caveats though:
- last time I checked grub2 had some issues booting on i486 (it basically depends a little bit on the age of the old machine and it's CPU).
As an alternative you can use syslinux (see Archlinux forums, how to configure that one)
- many many many packages are broken, so a pacstrap base could fail. In this case you can maybe ommit some not absolutely
necessary packages from base. I didn't install a i486 system for 2 to 3 years now, so hard to predict.
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thanks! you have did it years before? if so ,at that time, grub2 is fail and even pacstrapped base may be failure? syslinux and lilo is ok? I need only base and maybe compile kernel for mini memory. if not I will try gentoo next.
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