Re: Minimum RAM for ELKS?

[Tom McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com>]

--- Vikas Kumar <walburn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Dave
> Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever
> your target machine
> has, and use an elks image and see if it works.  iF
> it works on this
> setting, it should work on your target hardware as
> well.
> 
> Vikas

I remember there being an option in the ELKS
configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were
necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've
noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640
KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash
isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup).

> 
> On 5/15/06, Dave Mills <dave@webshed.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system
> at some time in the
> > near future. The system has very minimal RAM
> (~200k). Does anyone have
> > any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS
> in such a low RAM
> > configuration?  I realise that I'll probably not
> get much more than the
> > kernel booting, as other software running will
> require more RAM than I have.
> >
> > Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my
> application prints "I'm
> > alive!" over the serial port is my first target.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Dave
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