ANDY wrote:
>
> would it help you to know I have a parallel port iomega
> zip 100 drive installed on this machine
Hmmm, perhaps that could solve the problem. Slackware
has a special version designed for zipdisks. It's called
ZipSlack. You simply unzip to a zipdisk and boot. No
ramdisk required (so your 4meg RAM shouldn't stop the
installation).
Once you have Linux running from the zipdrive, you will
be able to put 12meg swap on the HD. If you still wish
to put BasicLinux on the HD, I'll need to give you
special instructions (but such an installation will be
*much* easier than what we were talking about yesterday).
> just curious, but could I *install* your BASLINUX on a
> zip cartridge, using the computer's 4MB of RAM,
Same problem as installing to HD. Linux has to be running
to install BasicLinux. Normally, this is done in a ramdrive
(which is not possible with 4meg RAM). However, if you can
get Linux running some other way (e.g. ZipSlack), then 4meg
RAM should not be an issue.
> and the zip cartridge as "another" "alternative" "HD"?
I have never used a zip drive, so I have no personal
experience with this. But, I think it should be possible
to put a Linux ext2 filesystem on a zip drive. I think
I heard somewhere that a zip drive is /dev/sda5 (or was
that /dev/hda5 ? /dev/hde ???). I'm pretty sure it
was 5-something.
Cheers,
Steven
