Re: 386sx/25mhz compatibility

From: bgeer (bgeer_at_xmission.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:35:12 +0000 (UTC)

jtechmart@yahoo.com (Nitro) writes:

>The machines are Dell Dimension 386sx/25mhz computers. Both computers
>came with 4MB of ram, and I need to look into whether they can be
>upgraded to 16MB as that seemed to be the minimum system requirements
>to install any linux OS. I'd need to add hard drives also, since the
>current drives are both very small (20MB).

For an x86sx kernel, compile with floating point emulation turned on.

I ran Linux kernel 2.0.13 on a 486sx/33mhz in 8MB ram laptop. Can't
remember original disk size. It had a pcmcia network card. I nfs'd
the disk & ran apache on it.

I didn't run X, much less a memhog like Gnome or KDE.

It made a great little test server for web pages & cgi-bins. I
compiled lots of C code on it, used it to develop software to drill
into a Clipper database to retrieve data & make it available via web
interface. Also used it to learn shell scripting, perl, dns, system &
network admin techniques. 

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