Re: Woody on 486 problem
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On 02/16/07 16:52, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>>
>>> Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me,
>>
>>
>> You really aren't a geek, are you?
>
> I really got laid off and don't have money to spend on
Ah, well, food+shelter trump all.
> hardware. And even if I did, I wouldn't want to add
> a lot of stuff to that machine. It's a dedicated machine.
> I don't have "add-on-itis".
>
> Besides, just putting a bunch of cards together isn't my
> idea of dealing with hardware, and the IBM PC is too
> huge. I like a challenge.
Too huge?
Meaning it's too easy to add h/w?
>>> especially since it can't be done. The smallest disc these
>>> days is around 100 Gig. I wonder why it won't run on a 386?
>>
>>
>> It? Slackware or the 100GB disk?
>
> Sorry. Slackware. The website states it requires a 486.
OK. Yes, a couple of years ago, changes to glibc (for better C++
support) necessitated compiling it using 486 instructions.
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