From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Blaz Antonic Subject: Re: Init problems Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:45:10 -0700 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D5D8E86.4B0A@havn.com> References: <20020816150352.GA6557@guests.deus.net> Reply-To: blaz.antonic@havn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: steve@portal-films.com Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hello, > I am new to linux so please be gentle. ;) Steve from the land of the free and home of the brave, apparently you are also new to spelling. > I am trying to run Elks on an old sharp laptop i just aquired > it has an 8088 processor (a wapping 7 MHZ) > a 720k floppy drive > and 256k of ram ELKS requires 640 KB of RAM to run (the value is hardcoded at the moment afaik). 256 KB is not 640 KB. > Please can you help me figure out how to get this working. Hmm, the obvious solution would be to get a box that fits minimum requirements - 8088 or fully compatible system with enough 'conventional' RAM, like 640 KB. Blaz Antonic