Subj : FreeBSD To : Russell Tiedt From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Sat Nov 17 2001 09:25 pm Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RT> Hi Roy, RJT>> One thing I can say about Minix, though, that you can't say RJT>> about any version of Linux or the BSDs -- it'll run on a bunch of RJT>> the really *old* hardware I have kicking around here, the RJT>> pre-386 stuff, if you can give it some ram to work with. JB>> I thought there was an 8086 version of linux (ELKS?) RJT> Is there? I don't know anything about it. If so, they probably RJT> ought to call it something else. I thought that linux by definition RJT> required a 386 or later. RJT> Hell, I haven't even tried it on a 386 yet. It runs slow enough on RJT> the 486 I've got for a test fixture here. RT> I have run Linux on a 386, and it ran fine, tho in those days it RT> was Slackware with a 1.1.18 kernal, way back '94-'95. I have a cdrom in a book here that I'll probably use if I ever want to try it... RT> As for the 486, give it some more memory. There is only 16M in there right now, and I will have to do something about that when I can. RT> Mine appreciated the jump from 16 -> to 36 Meg RAM. (16+8+8+4) Yes. The "main" box that I'm running Slackware on started out with 64M, but what with hardware problems I ended up using a different MB and only 32M... It didn't seem to suffer that much from me doing so. And yes I will up the ram in there when I get the chance. --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .