Re: [debian-knoppix] Booting Knoppix on oldder hardware?
Hallo Bill,
> Klaus,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, I had no idea Knoppix came with support :-)
>
> I went to duplicate the problem so I could give a better error report only to
> find it boots now! I've no idea what happened. I messed about with it
> trying various things and even got KDE to start ok (although it was very
> slow). I thought this might be the problem since I've noticed a couple of
> times if you type several cheatcodes on the bootline they don't all work (but
> I haven't been able to reproduce this with any regularity either).
>
> Anyhow, the only explanation I have is that since my first boot of Knoppix on
> this machine (at Cyrix P150+ with 48mb)
free on my Pentium, 133 MHz, 80MB RAM shows, it uses only 38 MB RAM with gnumeric
and sylpheed running:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 77576 75124 2452 0 11228 25784
-/+ buffers/cache: *38112* 39464
Swap: 50396 228 50168
Watch the number I have marked with *...*! The rest is "only" used for cache!
< I've installed RH6.2 on the harddisk,
> so now there is a swap partition and Knoppix is making use of it. If I can
> get the problem to occur again I will give a more complete report.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions. I found the other ideas
> of using ICEWM very nice too, I didn't think I could get a window manager
> working so nicely on such an old machine, but it looks and works great.
Just try it! Enter at the bootprompt:
knoppix desktop=icewm
then YOU may decide weather to give it a chance or not!
>
> /bill
>
>
> On May 13, 2003 01:39 pm, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:47:50AM -0400, Bill wrote:
> > > From what I can gather the kernel has been built for 686, not 586, so I
> > > get
> >
> > The Kernel on the download version of KNoppix has been compiled in 368
> > compatibility mode.
> >
> > > something about 'Pentium+ tcs instruction required' then a kernel fault.
> >
> > When/where do you get this error?
> >
> > > Would it be possible to supply supplying a second kernel for older
> > > machines on the CD?
> >
> > The kernel on the CD is compiled to support the VERY OLD machines
> > starting from i386.
> >
> > I may remove the FPU emulation support, though, to save some bytes on
> > the el torito bootfloppy. So, it won't run anymore on a plain i386
> > without an additional FPU (i486 and up should be OK).
> >
> > Regards
> > -Klaus Knopper
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