Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:42:35 -0600 (CST) | From | Jon Torrez <> | Subject | Re: Linux Runs on 386 Sx 16 - 2MB RAM !!! |
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I had a friend who used a laptop 386 sx16 with five megs of ram and 80 megs of swap and it took him all weekend to compile 1.2.13
it was scary..
just my .02
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote:
<WWW>On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 12:45:49AM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote: <WWW>> <WWW>> My first Linux box was a 386sx-20 with 6mb. Compiling kernels <WWW>> sucked...about 2.5h <WWW> <WWW>I had (and still have) a 386sx/16 with 2MB of RAM. <WWW> <WWW>Using 1.0.9 lite it was quite acceptable for things like minicom <WWW>and such, but g++ sucked bad ;-) The memory was on the low <WWW>side; when it booted didn't use the swap - until someone <WWW>logged in.... <WWW> <WWW>Problem was, to use 1.0.9 lite I had to compile it - using <WWW>the 1.2.13 that I had! With no daemons whatsoever running, <WWW>it took 52 hours and 10 minutes, swapping all the way. <WWW> <WWW>4 megs would've been heaven :-) <WWW>-- <WWW>#include <std_disclaim.h> Lorens Kockum <WWW> <WWW>- <WWW>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in <WWW>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu <WWW>
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