Subj : unixs on a 386
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Dec 11 2001 11:02 pm

Hi CHARLES.

10-Dec-01 04:55:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to JASEN BETTS

 CA> 12333910c6d1 unix

 CA> Hello Jasen -

 CA>>> The best possible answer to the newbie question "Can I install
 CA>>> Linux on my 386?" seems to be something like:

 CA>>> A: Yes

 JB>> [18 lines stripped]

 JB>> It's eactly like "yes".

 CA> Or maybe it's not. Maybe there are maybes.

 JB>> Maybe "Yes, some older or more compact versions of linux, but
 JB>> it'll still be a 386."

 CA> If there is 8 meg of memory and if the hard drive is of a certain
 CA> minimum size.

minimum hard drive is none.

kernal version 1.0 will run in 2 megs.

Tom's rootboot is a single floppy coiaining linux and a very few utilities

 JB>> If they're a newbie one of the "easier" versions could be more
 JB>> useful than slackware.

 JB>> dunno about the 26 diskettes... I expect the zip-cutter can write
 JB>> to the hard disk.

 CA> If you have the system DD was referring to and write the zip-cut
 CA> archives to the hard drive then where will you put the install? He
 CA> said he needed all of the 100 meg to install but with the zip-cut
 CA> archives on there he would've had only 70 meg (or less).

Delete each one after unpacking it.

You may need to move the last zip archive onto floppy to make room but
probably won't.

 JB>> if you've got 8 megs (or almost 8 megs) of ram Doslinux is
 JB>> another option. as it consists of only a few files you don't get
 JB>> the filecount problem when undoing the archive.

 CA> There are certain gotcha's when using more than one OS that write
 CA> to the same file system format.

yeah, that's why doslinux is good it doesn't hardly does anything to the
dos filesystem just updates a single file

 -=> Bye <=-
---
 * Origin: There's no future in time travel (3:640/531.42)

.