Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:45:04AM +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM,
> no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I get "Non-System disk or disk error
> replace and strike any key when ready" When i try to boot it (some things
> never change) so i am supposing it either doesn't have a hard drive or the hard
> drive doesn't work or it was just formatted.
>
> Is there any chance that anyone has a Debian floppy image for 1.44
> floppies
There are 1.44 floppy images on the debian site but they won't work.
> that i would be able to boot off and run it with? I am trying to take over the
> world with my spanky new machine.
>
Debian won't run on it since it has no mmu and a bunch of other things
are missing (I think that there is also something about real/protected
mode support). I think the minimum would be a 386 but could only be a
486. Also, 640KB will be stretching it quite a bit if possible at
all. Even embedded systems usually have more today. I think even the
most basic PDAs running linux need at least around 700K for the system,
and thats with a buisybox doing all the usermode stuff.
You may be able to get uclinux (mmu-less linux) to run on it but it
will take a LOT of work and I am doubtful that it can.
Your best bet if you want to get it running is to get a dos disk
somewhere on the net (freedos should be available since dosemu uses it,
and I ran into msdos 6 or 7 on mldonkey but never tried it). There are
a few dos games sites around where you could probably get some games
that will run over that.
> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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