Re: [debian-knoppix] Booting Knoppix on oldder hardware?
Hallo Bill,
> Well I must say I continue to enjoy Knoppix, and find it useful!
I agree! It is great!
>
> One thing I've noticed though since I've been using it both to access the
> compute cycles on new machines that I can use, but cannot reconfigure, and on
> older machines to either use them as a terminal, or for data recover, it that
> it will not boot on older machines.
>
> From what I can gather the kernel has been built for 686, not 586, so I get
> something about 'Pentium+ tcs instruction required' then a kernel fault.
> Would it be possible to supply supplying a second kernel for older machines
> on the CD? I've had good luck running 'lnx-bbc' on the same machines, but
> I've not tried replacing the kernel since I didn't want to build a custom CD.
AFAIK Linux does not work on a 486sx, a 486 without coprocessor. It definatly
runs on any Pentium with more than 100 MHz! But it should be knx-hdinstalled on
harddisk when using X11
>
> Of course I'm planning to run without X since the machines I'm recovering
> don't have the resources (typically P1 100-233 with 32-64mb), but are
> certainly enough to run the basics and even things like emacs etc.
I am using Knoppix and Debian on many P100 and P133 Systems WITH X, but no KDE,
no staroffice, no mozilla!
I am using icwm, rxvt, gnumeric, abiword, dillo, opera 6 and sylpheed. Dillo is ok,
Opera is slower, but it supports frames etc. (Pentium 133 Laptop with 80MB RAM).
Not to forgett xmms for mp3!
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