deFreese, Barry said: > First of all, my apologies for the OT question, we seem to be straying > quite a bit these days. Now for the WAY OT question: > > We are running a lot of Symbol technologies scanners here in the > warehouse and I noticed that they are using DRDOS for the OS, running > Novell's free (old) IP stack. My thought was "I wonder if I could get an > embedded Linux running on this thing"? They have 128K EPROM that holds > the OS, BIOS, and terminal diagnostics, 640K of RAM and 256K of standard > non-volatile memory (apperently upgradeable to 1.2M). The one caveat is > that it would need a 5250 emulator as well and I have yet to find a 5250 > emulator for Linux that works.
I've never heard of any linux kernel that could boot in less then, 2MB of ram I think(maybe its 4MB). 128k EPROM doesn't sound like enough for even a kernel let alone some userland stuff. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
