Hello Howard - >I installed BasicLinux in 5 meg using baslin17.zip, bas2hd.zip, and >bas4mb.zip following the instructions at the BasicLinux homepage. > >I installed standard Debian 1.3 from a CD using the "lowmem" boot >disk. > >> >Getting things to work on my 2 meg (really 640 + 1024k) 386 laptop >> >is more difficult. Lynx386 won't work in DOS and there is too little >> >ram for Minix386. Minix86 works, but, while it can do PPP, there are >> >very few apps. I have read that Lynx for Minix requires 4 meg. >> >> I am impressed that any version of Minix will install with that >> amount of memory, kudos to Tannenbaum eh?
>And kudos to the fellow in South America that wrote the SLIP and >PPP drivers for Minix. Have you actually tried using Minix? No Minix installs here. Way back when I found Linux first at version 0.94 or something like that. It required an image transfer of the entire archive to a partition and I was concerned it might do harm to my existing software. I found Minix after that but was told _repeatedly_ that although Minix worked as you said there are few apps for it. I could see no point in an OS that just sat there allowing endless configuration changes. I know Linux users love to re-configure, I'm not all that fond of it myself. ;-) >> >Beside a small FreeDOS partition, I have managed to install version >> >2.0 of Smalllinix which uses Linux kernel 1.0.9 (not Y2K) and has >> >serial and SLIP/CSLIP but not PPP. It can run programs (ELF) from >> >BasicLinux but can't use the kernel modules required for PPP, etc. > >The small kernel Linux's can be installed using the traditional boot >disk + root disk. So far, I am more "impressed" with what I can do >with these than with what I can do with Minix. Limited number of knowledgeable hobbyists willing to code apps and many were pulled away to Linux from Minix leaving Minix with less options. I suspect this was a bad day for legacy SurvPC users. :-\ >> I almost installed Linux v0.94 onto an XT way back when then decided >> it was too much trouble. :-) > >XT? I have spent the last few weeks playing around with this stuff >and actually got a lot farther than I thought I would. I'm not >trying to convince anyone about anything, but figured perhaps someone >else on the list might be interested in this type of project for >low-end survpc's. I'm interested. I may not always be in a position to attempt the same installs but I am definitely interested. You may have noticed over the years I'm the guy who gets beat up in the FIDO Linux echo for pointing out that few there know how to do the minimal installs they insist are possible. It's a reocurring theme for me there if I get annoyed and mention it (every six months?). >I guess I should have changed the Subject: header >first. :-) FIDO habits - never change the subject line. I do it too. :-\ Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
