To All;
The responses to my question have been all but
overwhelming !! Thank you. If nothing else I sure
piqued at least a few people's curiousity and definitely
my own :-)
To Richard Adams and the rest who primarily pointed
out the lack of ram, I was afraid that would be the killer.
I too have run it on a 386sx w/4 megs ( 210mb isa drive)
and quickly upgraded to 8 megs. slo-o-o-o-w at 4, no doubt
about it. At 8 megs though it runs like a charm and has been
running 7/24 for many many months w/ax25-utils and xfbb (no X).
without a problem.
Our local RACES group has been impressed and want to upgrade
the local system along with two satelite compaq's and make them TCP/IP
capable for emergency use. These satelite boxes are so old,
memory may be a problem to find, but I'll give it a shot.
After all, with Linux the only way to learn and improve the entire
system (user knowledge, software et al) is by doing.
To Jay Jacobson, your system looks intriqing and I thing I may
start there.
My other thought is a basic slackware rescue disk with net-tools
and tie it into my other 386 and just swap the glibc system over.
I'll let you all know how it turns out, and thanks again for
all the encouraging and, yes, the not so encouraging responses.
(I really love these lists - can you imagine M$ responding this
quickly and accurately ??).
JC
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:04:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Gentlemen and Ladies,
>
> Has anyone tried or know of anyone
>who has tried to squeeze a basic linux system onto
>a '386 w/2 megs of ram and a 65 meg hd ?? (grin:-)
>
>This will act as a portable terminal only for amateur radio.
>Obviously X is not an option.
>......
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