Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: installing .01 | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:58:12 -0400 (EDT) |
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tristan writes:
> I want to install the linux kernel 0.01 on my 386 machine, and im > lost on how to do it.
Go up a few versions, to 0.02 maybe, if you have any hopes of running a compiler on this system. You will need at least 4 MB of RAM for compiling, since the early kernels didn't support swap.
Minix-386 is a hacked up Minix. Minix is an educational OS for the 8088 that was just recently made free. There once was a collection of patches that would add 386 feature support. So you could get Minix running, patch it, then build Linux.
Try this:
The Minix filesystem can be 64 MB at most. Make a partition for that, one for swap, and one for a newer Linux distribution. This pre-Slackware thing would be a good choice: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/MCC/2.0+/
Um, you really don't want to be building gcc on a 386. You might have to build intermediate versions, since the old gcc might not compile with the most recent gcc. Perhaps you have or can borrow a modern machine for builds.
Finding the extras, like libc and a shell, will be hard.
You might need a boot loader called "shoelace". You should be able to run this from LILO.
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