From: chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>
To: Calin Szonyi <caszonyi@rdslink.ro>
Cc: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:45:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405F5E8E.8050607@gelm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403222216130.583@grinch.ro>
<snip>
>I found a site http://linux.ka.nu/ which has slackware 1.1.2 and i thought
>to give it a try on my 486 machine. The problem is that i have a 6.4GB
>hard drive :-)
>
>
If you are simply trying to run linux on an 80486 why not try
a current kernel. I ran kernel 2.2.19 on an 80486dx33 with
32 MB of RAM and a 40 Gigabyte Maxtor. BIOS would
recognize 2.1 GB through Maxtor's EZ-DISK utility. Linux
recognizes the rest of the 38 GB as it boots. I am now
running kernel 2.4.22 (Slackware9.1) on this 80486dx33.
It is my firewall and router.
HTH, Chuck
>>In any case, what will limit you is, most likely, not Linux itself, but
>>either LILO or fdisk. Old versions of LILO will be subject to the
>>1024-cylinder limit, requiring that you place a small /dev/hda1 partition
>>on the drive and use it as /boot .
>>
>>
>>
>
>I booted the kernel from slackware 1.1.2 distribution (linux 0.99.15) and
>it says that my harddrive has too many heads (255) ;-) but that's on a
>40GB maxtor :-))
>
>Thanks again
>
>
>
>--
>"A mouse is a device used to point at
>the xterm you want to type in".
>Kim Alm on a.s.r.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-22 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-21 21:11 Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question) caszonyi
2004-03-22 16:27 ` pa3gcu
2004-03-22 17:07 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-03-22 20:47 ` caszonyi
2004-03-22 21:45 ` chuck gelm [this message]
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2004-03-22 21:10 3aoo-cvfd
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