Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: USRobotics Pilot 68000 and OS in ROM, Fancy that! | From | Jes Degn Soerensen <> | Date | 04 Feb 1997 16:38:01 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Mitchell <gmitch@woodlea.woodlea.wintermute.co.uk> writes:
>> I just got my USRobotics Pilot and noticed, this is a 68000 family >> CPU, and the OS is in ROM. Hmmm...
Graham> Waaaaaay ahead of you there old bean.....:)) You can actually Graham> replace the ROM with a couple of FLASH ROMs (if you look at Graham> the pic on the 1Mb memory expansion board). But even with 1Mb Graham> of FLASH and 1Mb RAM, the chances of getting Linux working are Graham> slim to none.....:((
Why?
You can do a Linux/m68k kernel that is less than 1MB and I actually think it is possible to boot Linux/m68k in 2MB (including the space needed for the kernel).
Jes
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