From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:17:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:17:42 -0400 Received: from dsl-216-227-46-73.telocity.com ([216.227.46.73]:9477 "HELO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:17:30 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: tristan Reply-To: fattymikefx@yahoo.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: installing .01 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:19:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010817031904.3DFEF501D7@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, i just recently joined this mailing list because i need help. And Linus suggested i join the kernel mailing list, and quote his email to me as a starting point. I want to install the linux kernel 0.01 on my 386 machine, and im lost on how to do it. I am 16 and only worked with linux for the last two years. I see running .01 on my 386 as a learning experience into the depths of the machine, and how to use assembly and work on OSs. So i need some help here is what Linus told me: > > i would like to run linux on it. Im sure there are old distios i could find > to install on the machine but i would have much more fun learning about > the OS by install the .01 version of the kernel on the system, deleteing > DOS and Windows 3.1 which are currently stinking up the computer. > The problem is im not sure how to do this, and i cant find any documentation > on installing a linux kernel unless i already have linux running. Well, historically in order to be able to install the 0.01 kernel, you had to have a full minix-386 distribution - that was the only way to make the filesystem, and to copy the necessary files over etc. And quite frankly, it's been ten years for me too, so I don't remember all the details. You probably don't have access to minix-386 anyway, so I suspect that what you _should_ do is try to use a newer version of Linux to bootstrap with. You need a really old compiler to compile Linux-0.01 with - I think it needs gcc-1.40 or similar. It simply won't compile with newer compilers. All in all, yes, it can be done. I haven't done it personally in ten years, and never hosted from Linux, though. I suspect your best option would be to try to get a discussion going on how to do all this on the kernel mailing list or similar, feel free to quote this email as a starting point. Linus I hope some one on this list can help me. If anyone has any information of helpfulness i would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Tristan Sloughter