On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:13:16AM +0000, Charles Angelich wrote: > >4 meg ram seems to be the lower limit for a lot of stuff. I can get > >Linux kernel 2.0 (BasicLinux i.e Slack 3.5, Debian 1.3) on my 5 meg > >386 and run Lynx386 in DOS. > > Unfortunately most who have managed to find workable 4 meg installs > don't document what they've used and the archives they accessed to > do this are often deleted from FTP servers leaving few opportunities > for others to follow these paths. :-\
I installed BasicLinux in 5 meg using baslin17.zip, bas2hd.zip, and bas4mb.zip following the instructions at the BasicLinux homepage. I installed standard Debian 1.3 from a CD using the "lowmem" boot disk. > >Getting things to work on my 2 meg (really 640 + 1024k) 386 laptop > >is more difficult. Lynx386 won't work in DOS and there is too little > >ram for Minix386. Minix86 works, but, while it can do PPP, there are > >very few apps. I have read that Lynx for Minix requires 4 meg. > > I am impressed that any version of Minix will install with that > amount of memory, kudos to Tannenbaum eh? And kudos to the fellow in South America that wrote the SLIP and PPP drivers for Minix. Have you actually tried using Minix? > >Beside a small FreeDOS partition, I have managed to install version > >2.0 of Smalllinix which uses Linux kernel 1.0.9 (not Y2K) and has > >serial and SLIP/CSLIP but not PPP. It can run programs (ELF) from > >BasicLinux but can't use the kernel modules required for PPP, etc. The small kernel Linux's can be installed using the traditional boot disk + root disk. So far, I am more "impressed" with what I can do with these than with what I can do with Minix. > I almost installed Linux v0.94 onto an XT way back when then decided > it was too much trouble. :-) XT? I have spent the last few weeks playing around with this stuff and actually got a lot farther than I thought I would. I'm not trying to convince anyone about anything, but figured perhaps someone else on the list might be interested in this type of project for low-end survpc's. I guess I should have changed the Subject: header first. :-) Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
