Declan Moriarty babbled on about: > You've all heard of pc upgrades; I've just fluttered a few quid on a > downgrade. Exact specs (Intel)'386, 4MB, 40MB HD, ISA bus, cga (sub > hercules) orange screen. > Why? I hear you ask in pained anguish. Well It's luggable (The size above > laptops - transportable but using standardish parts). I can get cheap pc > oscilliscopes, cheap pc eprom programmers, and even cheap pc logic > analysers and use them in my business. I can also use it for plc > programming. If the pc is luggable, I can get that kit around the place. I > even have an Analogue Signature Analyser which runs off a pc serial port > and helps greatly in my hardware repair business - if I have a serial port > handy. Enter the luggable. Plans are: remove M$ windows if present. Upgrade > in the new year to vga if possible, and mebbe upgrade the m/b to get a more > expandable beast in there. Meanwhile, what do people suggest as a form of > Linux? > It will have to share 40MB with Dos 6.22 and windes; not M$ windows: A > cheeky winME impersonation that runs on a 286! If I may advertise the > writers http://www.maniasoft.com ). If I may not ...OOPS sorry! > > The miniature linuxes I've tried are: Tomsrtbt - fine, but inscrutable and > difficult to modify; mulinux - d/l'ed something, got past the tar command > but hung on the make, and lost intest 'cos I got busy. I don't mind a > console only interface, but a version of X would be better
don't know how comfortable w/ linux you are.. but you could always try linuxfromscratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org). then you could put only what you needed on it.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net printk("Penguin |d is stuck in the bottle.\n", i); 2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/smp.c _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
