hi all..

hi all..

[Manikandan]

 
 hello sir,
               I am working in a embedded development company. My boss asked
me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the feautures he wants. Can u
help with the details.

urs,

Manikandan.P

Re: hi all..

[Riley Williams]

Hi.

 > I am working in a embedded development company. My boss asked
 > me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the features he 
 > wants. Can u help with the details.

Sure...

 1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.

 2. Go to the chosen distribution's FTP site.

 3. Download the ISO images for the said distribution.

 4. Burn those images to CD-Recordable.

 5. Boot from the first installation CD.

 6. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Reasonably easy.

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Re: hi all..

[Jeffrey J. Nonken]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:38:43 +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
>>I am working in a embedded development company. My boss asked
>>me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the features he
>>wants. Can u help with the details.
>
>Sure...
>
>1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.
>
>2. Go to the chosen distribution's FTP site.
>
>3. Download the ISO images for the said distribution.
>
>4. Burn those images to CD-Recordable.
>
>5. Boot from the first installation CD.
>
>6. Follow the on-screen instructions.
>
>Reasonably easy.

What Mr. Williams is trying to convey in his own special way :) is that Linux will run on a 386 by default. There are some distros that have been optimized for newer processors, and some distros are more resource hungry than others, but 386 is the oldest processor that supports the memory modes Linux is designed for. What you need is not a port, but just to choose your distribution wisely.

Another possibility to consider is NetBSD, which isn't Linux, but will run in a thimble.


Elks is specifically designed to run on older processors, and this list isn't a general Linux help list. Suggest you find a more mainstream Linux group for help. Try http://www.linuxbeginner.org/ for a start.


Good luck!

Re: hi all..

[Fname Lname]

--"Manikandan" <mani_kanmani@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am working in a embedded development company.
> My boss asked me about porting of Linux to 386 
> machine with the features he wants. Can u help with
> the details.

-- Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name> wrote: 
> Sure...
> 
>  1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.

Since someone else also mentioned *BSD then may I
suggest: Minux? 

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

Ran me first internet accessible webserver on an old
386/20mhz with 2meg of ram & a 20 meg drive. Still
have it. Still runs. 

I also fool around with ELKS on me ole' Tandy 1000A.
It runs, more or less, although I do not yet have it
working on the hard drive. 

Oh. One more thing -

-- Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name> also said:  
> ..., nothing as ugly as a frown.

- Really? Have you seen <insert name of some other
Elks developer here>'s source code lately?

( Sorry. I tried SO hard not to. Just couldn't help
myself. )

(:-P

-- Robert Bowers (rlb_pobox@yahoo.com)

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RE: hi all..

[Riley Williams]

Hi Robert.

 >> I am working in a embedded development company. My boss
 >> asked me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the
 >> features he wants. Can u help with the details.

 >> Sure...
 >> 
 >>  1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.

 > Since someone else also mentioned *BSD then may I
 > suggest: Minix? http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
 >
 > Ran me first internet accessible web server on an old
 > 386/20mhz with 2meg of ram & a 20 meg drive. Still
 > have it. Still runs.

That's certainly an option providing one can satisfy the
Minix licence.

 > I also fool around with ELKS on me ole' Tandy 1000A.
 > It runs, more or less, although I do not yet have it
 > working on the hard drive.

I used to have one, but it went belly up just before I
first came across ELKS so I never had a chance to try it
out on that machine.

 > Oh. One more thing -

 >> ..., nothing as ugly as a frown.

 > - Really? Have you seen <insert name of some other
 > Elks developer here>'s source code lately?
 >
 > ( Sorry. I tried SO hard not to. Just couldn't help
 > myself. )

I've seen some pretty ugly source code, including some I've
written myself at times, but I still feel the above claim
of mine is correct.

Best wishes from Riley.
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RE: hi all..

[Michael McConnell]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Riley Williams wrote:

>  >>  1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.
> 
>  > Since someone else also mentioned *BSD then may I
>  > suggest: Minix? http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
>  >
>  > Ran me first internet accessible web server on an old
>  > 386/20mhz with 2meg of ram & a 20 meg drive. Still
>  > have it. Still runs.
> 
> That's certainly an option providing one can satisfy the
> Minix licence.

Which, IIRC, has been re-licensed on a BSD-like licence.

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Re: hi all..

[pctips]

Alle 09:02, sabato 05 luglio 2003, Manikandan ha scritto:
>  hello sir,
>                I am working in a embedded development company. My boss
> asked me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the feautures he wants.
> Can u help with the details.

EtLinux should be the best solution for you : http://www.etlinux.org
It's developed by an Italian society, PROSA, and it could run in 2 MB RAM and 
2 MB of disk space (hard disk, compact flash, smartcard or similar).
Some parts of the system are re-written in TCL in order to save space on disk.

muLinux (http://mulinux.sunsite.dk) needs at least 4 MB RAM and it's based on 
Linux 2.0.36; it's really complete and you can use X, SSH, VNC, Java and many 
other things on your computer.

SmallLinux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/) needs at least 2 MB RAM and 
it's based on Linux 2.0.0 : you could do some basilar jobs with it.

> urs,
>
> Manikandan.P
-- 
byez
pctips
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Re: hi all..

[Gábor Lénárt]

Hi,

Linux kernel *runs* on i386 CPU without any modofication so it's not a problem.
You can tweak with configuration settings especially when only low range of
memory included in your machine. But your question is very hard if you can't
give us further information about your needs ...

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:32:45PM +0530, Manikandan wrote:
>  
>  hello sir,
>                I am working in a embedded development company. My boss asked
> me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the feautures he wants. Can u
> help with the details.

- Gábor (larta'H)
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Re: hi all..

[Juanjo Marín]

ELKS will work on i386 but it's targeted for older processor like 8086 and 
it's not very useful for end users by now. You have to use GNU/Linux and 
find a distribution that is good for you. Some pointers:

http://www.distrowatch.com/
http://www.linuxiso.org/

By the way, this is not a forum for GNU/Linux issues, it's only for ELKS.

-- Juanjo Marín



A las 09:02 05/07/2003, Manikandan dijo algo como esto:

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>
>  hello sir,
>
>                I am working in a embedded development company. My boss asked
>me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the feautures he wants. Can u
>help with the details.
>
>
>
>urs,
>
>
>
>Manikandan.P
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