From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Kalogirou Subject: Re: Elks freeze after login [machine config] Date: 02 Aug 2002 18:18:13 +0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1028301492.554.33.camel@cool> References: <001901c239ea$d4b30df0$0101a8c0@workstation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <001901c239ea$d4b30df0$0101a8c0@workstation> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" To: Christophe Gimenez Cc: Linux 8086 =D4=E7=ED =D0=E1=F1, 02-08-2002 =F3=F4=E9=F2 09:07, =EF/=E7 Christophe = Gimenez =DD=E3=F1=E1=F8=E5: >=20 > Hello Riley, >=20 > I'm using the disk images downloaded from sf and seems to be the 0.1.= 0 > version. > This compaq has : > - a 20286 > - a 20287 (but I'm not sure, I've not used this computer since 1991),= I will > test for it > - 1,6 MB of ram > - a 40 MB IDE disk > - two serial ports >=20 > The two serial ports are detected at boot time as > ttys0 at 0x3F8 (irq =3D 4) with 16450 > ttys1 at 0x2F8 (irq =3D 3) with 16450 >=20 > and lp0 at 0x3BC ELKS will run like the wind on it... > I've been able to fdisk and mkfs (but not mount due to my lack of kno= wledge > of mount parameters, the simple mount /dev/bda1 /mnt provided in the = faq > doesn't work). > Just for information : I must say I've not been able to run minix 2.0= =2E3 on > it. I had problems with mkswap or something like that and switched to= elks > that seems more fun to explore. >=20 > I'm really interested on having tcpip services working because I woul= d like > to use a null modem wire (with pppd when it will be available if not > allready done) to transfer compiled files from my linux gateway to th= e 286 > instead of having to write floppy, unmount, mount, launch and so on..= =2E >=20 Actualy you will use CSLIP... PPP is not an option on ELKS yet. CSLIP i= s will give you everything you need. My machine for ELKS is a : 8086=20 640KB RAM 40MB hard disk 1 serial port, 1 parallel a PS/2 port I am running ELKS 0.1.1-pre$ (the latest from the CVS) on it. It is connected with a null modem serial cable to my linux based gateway usin= g CSLIP at 9600bps. The root partition is around 30MB and I also have an 1MB swap partition. I'm also running on it constanly a web server(for the fun of it, since with swap we don't have memory shortage problems), serving a copy of the ELKS web site. I also use the web server to get files I need from it. To get files to the ELKS machine I use urlget. It is almost eye-wetting to fire an attack of http requests on it and see the little 8086 starting to swap-out some of the vi's and shells running on the 3 consoles ,to make room for the httpd's serving the pages. (Note that with shared memory every new httpd takes only 4kb, #use chmem for this since the linker fives it a 32KB data segment#) Good luck with your 286! Harry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html