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> I recently got an old 386 with 4M ram and decided to put Linux on it. The
> HD it came with was only 80M which was too small, so I tried a 1G drive and
> set the CMOS type (it has no auto or user entries ) to type 60 which would
> give me 220M. Strangely the Suse 5.3 boot disk sees it as a 1G drive and so
> far has had no problems using it's full capacity.
4 MB RAM is very, very brave. I use an old Compaq 386DX20, 2 Times 120
MB HDD, 16 MB RAM and it took a good while....... It's a Printserver
now.
For your Harddrive: Linux does not need the BIOS entrys. It needs the
disk C entry to find something to boot from. Don't bother to enter a
second disk to BIOS. Don't bother about the 512 MB limit. (But make dure
/ part. is below that) I entered the disks geometry in one case and
"cheated" with the number of tracks, declaring my harddrive 80 MB
(exactly the size of my / part.)
>
> The problem I have now is that it is extremely slow, which I expected - but
> I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions of changes I can make to
> speed it up (apart from upgrade the HW). I installed Suse via NFS 2 days
Try to ask friends for old Computer stuff, particulary Memory. (I
desperately hope your Machine isn't a Compaq. The mem expansion board
would be priced like a Pentium II, even from the dip)
> ago and so far it is as par as yast finishing up with 'setting up Perl'. I
> intend to modularise the kernel to minimise memory it uses and stop
> http/squid e.t.c running.
>
What do you need it for?
run as less services as possible and nessesary. Compile a handmade,
modularised kernel on !!another!! machine and copy it and the modules
over. (I use NFS for this).
> Would it be better to use Suse 5.2 instead of 5.3?? is it smaller?
> Regards,
>
Not sure. I think the kernel is the thing. The "older" SuSE Versions
(4.x) came with info how to install on 4 MB, but you made it. Be sure to
add enough swap. At least, your disk is big enough for that. ;-)
Juergen
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