[wplug] iso small distro
Eric Hsiung
ehsiung at bellatlantic.net
Fri Dec 7 20:27:16 EST 2001
Elwin,
I've got some 30-pin 1MB SIMMs that I'll never need
so you're more than welcome to them. Let me know if
you're interested.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Walther Jr." <philjr at attglobal.net>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: [wplug] iso small distro
> I would even possibly look for some 30 pin sims somewhere, assuming that's
> the memory the machine needs. You could probably max that machine out
with
> ram, if you can find it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org]On Behalf Of
> Elwin Green
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:30 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] iso small distro
>
>
> Greetings all-
>
> I have inherited a dinosaur, and want to make it a pet.
>
> The machine is a 386/33 with 4MB RAM, 2 SCSI drives (200 MB each). and a
3.5
> floppy drive (NO CD-ROM). It has Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on it, and
I'd
> like to make it a pure Linux box, for learning purposes.
>
> I've been looking for a small distro, but most of the ones I've found
> require 8MB RAM, because they use ramdisks. Others either don't support
> SCSI, or require a CD-ROM. I did find one - Martin's Mandrake 6 - which I
> got up and running, but I couldn't find a text editor there (if anyone has
> used it, did I overlook something?).
>
> Can anyone recommend a distro that I can download to floppy and install to
> hard drive, that supports SCSI, and that will work and play with 4MB RAM?
(X
> Windows neither necessary nor desired)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Elwin G.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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