Subject: Re: 386
From: Greg Jetter (greg@lazymountain.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 22:41:10 AKST
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:11 pm, Adam Elkins wrote:
> Ok, I'm tryin to put Linux on this old box to run one of my robots.
> Hardware: AMD DX/DXL-40 (Tiny Linux will run on all 386 chips but that one)
> 468m hard drive, SMC NIC, 1 3.5 floppy....
>
> How do I get started? I thought of installing the HD in another box, would
> I then just format it, and put LILO and a few other key files? I was
> thinking just install like normal, but on that HD, but obviously, the
> hardware would be diffrent. What do I do?
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You could use an older version like redhat 4.2 and just install the stuff
you need , I've installed upto redhat 6.0 on a small 140mb drive, that
included xwindows. Hell if they can put an entire router on a floppy you
should be able to install what you need on a 468mb drive.
I would stay away from the recent distro's because the stock kernels are all
compiled for petinumn class processors or better. If you do have a existing
disto running on a machine you could compile a kernel thats small and
compile for a 386 stripping out a lot of stuff your not going to use , Im
not sure though that the newer versions of the kernel like 2.2 and 2.4 will
run on a 386 , suppose you could find out by reading the doc's or viewing the
kernel sorce files, when compiling yourself you can save space and srink the
kernel , remmber all the new stuff has most every driver compiled in or as
modules so there is some execess you can dump.
anyway sounds like a fun project ....
Greg
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