Chris Frost wrote:
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> At my school I am trying to get them to start a c++ class. The only thing
> standing in our way is that they think the class would need pentiums, w/
> at least 32mb of ram (to run ms c++ or whatever). All they have right now
> in this classroom are a bunch of assorted 386's, w/ mostly 4mb's of ram, a
> 40 to couple hundred meg hd, etc. Can I install linux on these?
Yes... as a matter of fact my IronWing project is proof of this. It is
a
UMSDOS installation with the basics, ppp, and tcp/ip tools with man
pages
under 15MB installed. You could just grab the c/c++ tgz files from the
slackware distribution... though I'm not sure how much HD space would be
needed for the c/c++ tools...
> I wouldn't
> need anything like x, just something like vi (emacs would take too much
> ram),
Both 'joe' and 'pico' will run with no probs...
> and the c++ stuff (guess I'd have to compile kernels on my home
> machine, I doubt they have enough hard drive to do it).
I used to use a 386 w/ 4MB and found the standard slackware kernels
quite usable.
BTW, IronWing is at: http://www.lizard.org/dragonlinux/ironwing.html
Hope this helps...
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