Hello Ray, Am 09:05 2003-06-20 -0700 hat Ray Olszewski geschrieben: > >Hi, Michelle. Nice to hear from you again. Specific comments below.
nice to hear from you... So I am not alone ;-)) >At 05:00 AM 6/19/2003 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >>First I have a problem, because most of older 486 does not >>support othe FD formats as 1440 kBytes... > >Is this comment based on very much experience? Personally, I've nver run >into a 486 that did not support the 1680 KB format that LEAF uses ... As I have written to Jeff bevore, The Computers are much older as Win95 ;-)) and the Manufacturer ??? Do not ask me !!! I think, they are concurs since 10 years ;-)) >though I have run into particular floppy drives or floppies that could not >handle the format. I admit I don't have any recent experience with 486s ... >my junk box now holds old, slow Pentium mobo/CPU combinations ... but I >think you should give this another look. Yea, Curently I am looking for around 40-100 486/100 or some K5/75-100 For some month I have send around 40 HP Vectra XA 5/200MMX to Kurdistan ;-)) This HighPerformanc Machines running Debian/WOODY with fvwm2, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org... Oh yes, they have 96 MByte of memory... So I will say, they have no money to spend much more, but they can work... >>P.S.: I am hacking on my 2.4.19 Router image... >> And running into trouble because ulibc does not support >> somthing I need and libc6 is tooooooooooooooooooo big ! > >Do you mean uclibc? What is the "something"? pam for example... But the pam-libs are the HELL !!! Full Distros are too big for the old Computers so I am looking for a very small solution... Running postgresql on a 486/100 and a HD of 210 MB - YES, it Works ;-)) >Coming from LRP, you will probably find Dachstein easiest to adjust to. It OK, I will look for it. I think, it will use the 2.0.38 Kernel ? >follows Charles' older versions, derived from Matthew Grant's "mountain" >series, pretty closely. It and Bering seem to be the most widely used >variants these days, which means, in practical terms, more people on this >list able to answer questions about them. The problem is, that unfortunately I need funktionality of 2.4.19. >But for any current variant I can think of, you are going to have to >address the 1680 KB problem. Or, I suppose, you could reverty to a 2-floppy >boot/init process. Never I have used it... I think, I must try it out. Parallel I will ask a distributor of TEAC in Germany to get the FD-235HF in Big-Pack chaper... If I must use two FD I do not like to spend 14 Euros for each drive. >> My kernel has curently 474 kBytes and I call my distri >> 'Debian On Floppy v3.0' (but v2.1 and v2.2 exist too) > >If you want to pursue development of this distro as part of LEAF, it might >be worth uploading it ... and image and probably a kernel config file ... >to the LEAF site (MIke can get you set up to do this, I'm sure), so some of >us can take a look at it and comment. For this I need an Internet-Connection at home, but this is curenly not possibel, because I switch between a Foyer and the Hospital because the Kidneyfall (I am waiting of a new Kidney and sitting around and have much time to work on LRP/DOF/LEAF) > >> Sorry, curently I am very Off-Line and I have no wesite. > >I'm sorry too. I hope we can help with whatever technical advice you need >to get back online. I am thinking abour an 128kBit ADSL at a friend... Then I can put my virtual-Web-Server online... (or the whole Network powerd by LRP 2.9.4 the same Idiot-Image which works since 1999) My the Source be with you <_ Michelle \ \ (Does anyone know, where I can get the origional TUX-Yedi-Sticker ???) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html