From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:02:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:02:28 -0400 Received: from femail37.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.31]:35532 "EHLO femail37.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:02:08 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: "Albert D. Cahalan" , fattymikefx@yahoo.com Subject: Re: installing .01 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:02:00 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200108170358.f7H3wCY36744@saturn.cs.uml.edu> In-Reply-To: <200108170358.f7H3wCY36744@saturn.cs.uml.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081700020000.00373@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 16 August 2001 08:58 pm, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > tristan writes: > > I want to install the linux kernel 0.01 on my 386 machine, and im > > lost on how to do it. > > Go up a few versions, to 0.02 maybe, if you have any hopes of > running a compiler on this system. You will need at least 4 MB of > RAM for compiling, since the early kernels didn't support swap. > > Minix-386 is a hacked up Minix. Minix is an educational OS for > the 8088 that was just recently made free. There once was a > collection of patches that would add 386 feature support. > So you could get Minix running, patch it, then build Linux. hacked up? not anymore... http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/2.0.2/