Some time ago I had a version of BEOS that would run off a floppy, and access the internet using a GUI! I think the BE people went under, but somewhere I may still have the source code for it, and if so, I will send it. (You could make the floppy from the source using Windows, iirc. Maybe from Linux, don't know.) I also don't remember if it would run on a 386, but I was pretty impressed with it. At 12:56 04/07/2002 +0200, Clayton Cornell wrote:
I have dug up an old 386sx25 with 4MB RAM and a 100 MB HD. I would like to get this system up and running.... with Linux of course. The problem seems to be finding a package that will actually run on the silly thing. I have yet to be able to boot a SuSE Linux floppy on it.... of course, chekcing the boxes ofthe various 7.x versions I have tells me that a 386 is out of the question.
The ultimate goal of this machine is for it to be a simple play machine with basic ethernet/internet access. I would like to get one of the simple WMs running and a simple web browser as well, but this is not a must have.... more of a challenge once I get an OS installed.
So... any suggestions? FreeBSD, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware etc all seem to have system requirements beyond the humble hardware of this machine. Am I stuck with loading DOS6.22 and Windows 3.11 <shudder>?
C.
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