Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:40:43 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: The history of the Linux OS |
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25-Nov-98 22:04 you wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > This is a question that's been bugging me for a while. What's the EARLIEST >> > kernel that will still work with all the wonderful stuff that we have >> > including glibc2? :) >> >> Since your glibc2 is an ELF binary, 0.01 won't work for sure.
> I wouldn't do that if you care your data. Filesystems (expecially ext2) > changed a lot since the epoch so you may well end up with trashed > partitions. Don't experiment with kernels on your HDs. Use floppy but > don't try to mount partitions.
Especially since Linux 1.0 (and early) dislike IDE drives > 512Mb :-))
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