From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:45:50 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <405F5E8E.8050607@gelm.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040322085546.01f07548@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Calin Szonyi Cc: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org >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. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs