Slackware
Established back in 1993, Slackware (The Slackware Linux Project; Wikipedia) is the oldest surviving Linux distribution...
Slackware Linux 3.0 was the first Slackware release to have an official CD-ROM distribution and support installation from CD-ROM. Released in November 1995, the same month as the Pentium Pro. So complete system support is limited to i386, i486 and early Pentium systems.
Fortunately I have a Pentium based system that consists of hardware from this era: tilia. And that machine can be approximated using an Intel 430fx based system in PC emulators such as PCem.
PCem
The IBM PC and compatibles emulator PCem supports a range of PC system, from the original Intel 8088 based IBM PC through to a early 2000s slot 1 based Pentium II system. This includes a couple of systems featuring the Intel 430fx chipset which makes them equivalent to our physical system.
So the target emulated hardware is:
| Mainboard | Intel Advanced/ZP (Zappa); Intel Triton 82430FX PCIset aka. 430FX |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Pentium 75 |
| RAM | 72 MiB (128 MiB max.) |
| Floppy | 3.5" 2.88MB |
| Storage | IDE Controller Intel 82371FB aka. PIIX, ATA-2 16 MB/s |
| IDE hard disk 2048 GB | |
| ATAPI CD-ROM drive | |
| Video | S3 Trio64 based VGA |
| Network | 10Mb/s ethernet ISA |