At 10:08 AM 5/28/98 -0500, you wrote:

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ps My MSDOS car may leave me on the road, but at least I can get on the road .. know what I mean?

IMHO BEST Beginners book so far. Sams' Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours. redhat press.

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Victor wrote:

I am another 'clueless newbie'. A month ago I got an old laptop 286 and since then I'm wondering if there is any chance to put Linux on it.I'd love it!!

Not gonna happen. the 286 is a 16 bit chip. linux is a 32 bit os. -- Aaron Seelye <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

QNX may have an efect Michael Lankton wrote:

Try either minix or xenix, to my knowledge either will run on a 286.

Aaron Seelye wrote:

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Victor wrote:

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I am another 'clueless newbie'. A month ago I got an old laptop 286 and since then I'm wondering if there is any chance to put Linux on it.I'd love it!!

Not gonna happen. the 286 is a 16 bit chip. linux is a 32 bit os.

-- Aaron Seelye <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto

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Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, roberto@cbvcp.com produced:

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I am another 'clueless newbie'. A month ago I got an old laptop 286 and since then I'm wondering if there is any chance to put Linux on it.I'd love it!!

Not gonna happen. the 286 is a 16 bit chip. linux is a 32 bit os.

Well, there is the ELKS project (<A HREF="http://www.uk.linux.org/ELKS-Home/"><A HREF="http://www.uk.linux.org/ELKS-Home/</A">http://www.uk.linux.org/ELKS-Home/), but it is definitely 'expert only': "ELKS is intended as a subset of true Linux, and ought to be small enough to be understood by one person, so it should be invaluable as a learning tool. It is in the very early stages of development, and big chunks are missing, such as swapping, shared libraries, parallel and serial I/O, and networking. Having said that, it is already able to boot, provide virtual consoles, mount a root minix filesystems floppy, and start various small programs." (says the FAQ, from 1 month ago) However, if you want to sink a lot of time and learn a lot about kernels, 80x86 processors (x=0..2), C, etc. go ahead, but it it a most stony road and support will be sporadic if at all. Do it if you really love that kind of stuff. Else, better abstain or you'll be severely disappointed. Minix was suggested, but is for research and educational use only. And there are other drawbacks. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

I brought my Unix teachers laptop to my Linux group and she had only 4mg's of ram and no CD. All the installs we tried needed some more ram BUT there is a version called HAL-91, it's a 1-floppy version of Linux and we had it going in fine BUT the laptop didn't have a math co-processer in it, we could have re-compiled HAL-91 with it but we ran out of time, it would not have been a good representation of Linux anyway with such little ram. It was a 486-33. At 08:58 PM 5/30/98 +0300, you wrote:

root wrote:

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I have a Linux 5.0 running on a 386/8MB (without X graphical interface), but for this I had to compile a new kernel doing math processor emulation (one of the first options when compiling a new kernel -> look in the manual). Herbert

I am another 'clueless newbie'. A month ago I got an old laptop 286 and since then I'm wondering if there

is any

chance to put Linux on it.I'd love it!!

Victor

See ya on the Net <A HREF="mailto:victor@fx.ro">mailto:victor@fx.ro</A>

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