nah. But a friend of mine did the unthinkable, after being inspired by a desperate measure on my part.
I was running MkLinux on an old powermac 6100 with 16MB of ram. After mistyping a command (mke2fs /dev/sda4 instead of /dev/sdf4) and killing my swap partition, the machine died a nasty death, but didn't have enough memory for fsck (risc machine, remember). I ended up running swap from a zip drive (external scsi) in order to get through the fsck. I think it took nearly 6 hours. After hearing that, a friend of mine hooked up an old reel to reel, and used that as swap. That's about the worst old-hardware story I've got. (I've suppressed all my VMS on DecStation memories) Greg --- - Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) is on permanent record as saying: :You people are sick!!!!! : : -----Original Message----- :From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 9:38 a.m. :To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: Re: Very old distros (was Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats) : :ok i have run Very Small Linux on a 386 sx laptop with 2 MB RAM. :Painfully. beat that!
