Thanks for the responses. After reading a little bit I'm beginning to see what you mean, The processor and especially the ram (which I know I wont be able to upgrade) as Simon pointed out, are big issues. Although the ELKS link makes interesting reading. I'll poke around with it for a while, I can always donate it back for for somebody else to play with :-)
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:36 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:58 am, MG wrote: > > Hello all, > > I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store > > 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works > > screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. > > Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5". > > > > Anyways I was looking around for a small linix to put on it. > > Any recommendations? > > It is purely a learning experience for me not really going to do > > anything with it. > > For real linux you need at least a 386 processor, and those were made in > the 20Mhz and up range. > > BUT > > http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/ > > download the file images-0.1.0.zip > unzip it.... > copy to floppy > and try it out > > Civileme
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