Re: 386 Dx-40
Lindsay Allen wrote: AND THEN... go back to your 386 and run make install, make modules, make modules_install make modules will take an hour. I am puzzled as to why I should not just continue with the chroot idea and do the while job that way. I learned a lot out of this, so many thanks. (I'm a retired pilot and must admit to getting a bit slow these days. I should have discovered Unix 10 years ago.) I also discovered and set up svgatextmode today so I'm having a great day! Lindsay Uhm, yes, I guess you could also do the make modules as chroot, also. -- Daniel == http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo/ Organizer of Jax-LUG! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [snip] It has 8mb RAM, and runs pretty well. I wouldn't recommend compiling a 2.0.x kernel on it, though. With 1.2.13 and early 1.3.x kernels you could compile the whole kernel in 60-90 minutes on a 386-40/8, but with 2.0.x you can't even get through the dependencies in 60. So I would recommend compiling the kernels on another machine (I compile mine on my own workstation, an AMD 5x86-133, 32mb RAM). hamish I, too, have a 386/40 and a P133. Compiling 2.0.x takes me 10 minutes on the P133 and 3 hours 30 on the 386. What problems would there be in an NFS mount of the 386 /usr to the newer machine and doing a sort of cross compile? Are all the links relative? What about System.map and psdatabase? I do have one problem exclusive to the 386, which has 8 Mb ram. If I zless /debian/rex/Contents.gz and then search for ryry I get steadily increasing disk activity, the swap file grows to 9 Mb and I never get to the end. Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? Lindsay
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. I'm using a 386dx33 16MB at home right now. I mainly use it as an IP- masquerading router for my home network, but it works great at that. I don't use X (mainly because I've only got a 640x480 mona-VGA monitor), but I have configured it and it works well with only one or two apps up. No problems at all. Owen
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. Jonathan I'm using 386DX40 without any problems. I've 8MB (but it worked also with 4MB), 210MB IDE drive, VGA , Ethernet and everything's going just fine! I've also 386SX16 with exactly the same configuration running also my home WWW server without any problem!!! They're a part of my home network. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 Dx-40
Oops - I forgot to add that tigger is the 386 !! David On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:35:02 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. Jonathan __ David J. Evans AMS, Virology Research Group, The University of Reading Whiteknights, P.O. Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ Tel : +44 (0)118 9318893 Fax : +44 (0)118 9316537 http://skpc10.reading.ac.uk/
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. It runs fine. Of course, depending on the amount of memory, speed/size of the disk, presence or absense of memory cache, etc, performance may vary widely. Some time ago (with slackware and kernel 1.2.8), a 386DX40Mhz with 4Mb of ram and 64K cache memory compiled the kernel in about 4 hours. More memory means a *big* difference here. I even used netscape on this machine (X + static netscape), but it used to take a long time for it to startup (again, the main point is memory). The speed of the disk is also important; some older disks are *much* slower than others. Other than that, it's just as stable as linux ever was, i.e., very (I *never* experienced a lockup). See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 Dx-40
Hi, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. I'm running a 386DX33-256k-8M-1GB/ide-270MBsyquest-ET4000/1MB with no problems. Sure X11 is very Memory consuming but the system is very usable in textmode. I have attached a vt220, a V.34+ Modem and a second Display with MDA. My Mainboard does not allow to upgrade the RAM :( With 16MB this system would even be useable for some X11 work. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
Re: 386 Dx-40
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear M[sr]. Lawson I just upgraded from a 386DX-25 on which I'd been running Linux (Debian 0.96R6) with no problem. I had 4 MB RAM and an aged RLL hard drive (100 MB). X would run, but so slowly that I didn't bother with it (but I also had a non-accelerated ISA video card with a whole 512 kbyte RAM). It wasn't a screamer, but I found it acceptable for TeX, mail, and occasional hacking. Other reports say that with more RAM (= 8 MB), even X is OK. I had to upgrade because it wouldn't run my 5-year-old daughter's educational games :-). Hope this helps. - -- Sincerely yours, Max Hyre ** What's all this garbage at the bottom of my message? It's a security blanket for paranoids---ask me for details, or check out http://www.efh.org/pgp/pgpwork.html Key fingerprint = EFEC 0067 6803 852D B1DB 751E 6754 14EA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMkk/LfJa20+mce5pAQFE4QQAq37H4wFfovBEVi0YDXdys+6yql65pcVe UxkU5de6TA2MDThBfTYgd7m2YovHtiGE4LRwC/EKI9Y1E+fQvsAMvyXFDvTVC2YS xl2Ze4hJcGiOms6eJGGGQ3Qj7tdj5jNrWiv+WojbVyy+8T8a3zVgUtX2fHxzKaMC ymC0gs8YTfA= =szDT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 386 Dx-40
My web server, primary DNS, sendmail and mailagent are running on a 386DX/33 running Slackware. It's got 8MB of RAM and two 200MB hard drives. I've upgraded it to a 2.0.10 kernel (which I compiled on my Pentium/90 Debian machine -- much faster). Upgrading Slackware to a 2.0.x kernel was somewhat painful -- my next upgrade will probably involve switching the whole system to Debian. It also acts as a router, connecting my home LAN to the Internet full time over a 28.8k modem. I don't run X on it. Cheers, - Jim
