be sure to check out http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/xtpcs.htm
for some useful info on those old amstrads.
-brad
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Juha Siltala wrote:
elks will take two 360k disks: boot and root disks. You can either make
them from ready-to-go images or (better for localised
elks will take two 360k disks: boot and root disks. You can either make
them from ready-to-go images or (better for localised keyboards) build
your own.
J.S.
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jan Dobrucki wrote:
Hi,
I've gotten more information than I expected. Unfortunately I don't
have a manual for
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jan Dobrucki wrote:
Hi folks.
I have a little problem. I got an Amstrad PC1640 HD20. Real old. I don't
even know how much RAM it has. So tell me, any hope for porting Lunux to
it, or do I have to find myself a 386 with 4 MB of RAM?
Regards,
Jan Dobrucki
Hi Jan,
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Kalogirou Harilaos wrote:
The amstrad PC1640 has nothing to do this 286 and 386 , it is just an
8086 based machine... The one we are talking about obviously has 20MB
harddisk...
Try Minix on it. Minix got BSD-licensed a few weeks ago.
Jakob
Hi,
I've gotten more information than I expected. Unfortunately I don't
have a manual for my AMSTRAD so I'm not sure what configuration
settings I can change.
Minix and Elks sound very promissing. Question, do they fit on a
floppy with 360Kb of memory? Or do I need a 1.44Mb?
Cheers.
Jan
Hi folks.
Hi. Well, looks like there aren't any other folks out there with an
answer, so why don't I take a shot at this one :)
I have a little problem. I got an Amstrad PC1640 HD20. Real old.
Well, really old means a lot of different things to different people. I
thought the couple
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jan Dobrucki wrote:
I have a little problem. I got an Amstrad PC1640 HD20. Real old. I don't
even know how much RAM it has. So tell me, any hope for porting Lunux to
The answer's in the question. It has 640KB of RAM and was sold with a 20MB
hard drive. I think the processor
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Subject:Re: Linux for a really old computer
Hi folks.
Hi. Well, looks like there aren't any other folks out there
with an
answer, so why don't I take a shot at this one :)
I have a little problem
The amstrad PC1640 has nothing to do this 286 and 386 , it is just an
8086 based machine... The one we are talking about obviously has 20MB
harddisk...
HarKal
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Kalogirou Harilaos wrote:
The amstrad PC1640 has nothing to do this 286 and 386 , it is just an
8086 based machine... The one we are talking about obviously has 20MB
harddisk...
...and the floppy discs were 360K. (I had one until late last year, when
I gave it away...)
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