Re: 486 SX

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Seneca Cunningham (seneca@slemish.com) spake thusly:
... 
> Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I can
> do my own compiling on a pentium, but I would need to get it onto 1.2M
> floppies (I can't get into my 386's BIOS, so it can't boot off of its
> 1.4M drive (only the 1.2M or harddrive)). I know that the results could
> be somewhat slow, but anything is faster (and more stable) than watching
> it labour through windoze. I don't even have most of the DOS commands
> (fixing a corrupt floppy, and the harddrive was overwritten with floppy
> info instead of the floppy).

Google is your friend. E.g. http://www.superant.com/smalllinux 

There used to be a webpage that listed things you could trim 
in the kernel before compile to cut kernel size down. Ask on
LKML, I can't find the bookmark.

Dima
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