Subj : unixs on a 386
To   : Charles Angelich
From : Jame Clay
Date : Thu Nov 15 2001 12:25 pm

Charles,

>> Hell, I haven't even tried it on a 386 yet. It runs slow
>> enough on the 486 I've got for a test fixture here.

   My 486 doesn't have a working harddrive controller;  but I do have a P60
with Debian v2.2r4 running on it...

   Wonder how easy it is to install one of the BSD's on such low-end hardware? 
 (I'd like to take a look at BSD, & low end hardware is much easier to
get...<g>)


> I seriously doubt that you will ever get a working linux onto a
> 386 machine. 

  Linux runs just fine on a 386 machine...

  

> You might get something to `look' like it's
> working and you might be able to use it to telnet into a full
> linux server but it will be many meg just to create a dumb
> terminal.

   Eh?  Just like any other unix, how useful it is depends on what you have
installed.   (And it'd be at least a smart terminal...<g>)


> I have followed every lead for years to their dead ends. People
> who claim to have put linux onto 386's suddenly lose their only
> copy of the setup or develop amnesia and can't quite recall how
> they did it or even what distro they used.

   <shrug>   Slackware v3.4 is what I used...  200 meg harddrive, I think it
was, & 8 megs of ram... The ide controller died on it, or I'd still be using 
it...  Been thinking of getting some boot proms & just booting them off the 
network instead of off of harddrives...






Jame





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