On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:45:04AM +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I just found my old Compaq SLT|286 from the 1990ies! It has 640KB of RAM, > no mouse and a 80286 CPU at 12 mhz! I get "Non-System disk or disk error > replace and strike any key when ready" When i try to boot it (some things > never change) so i am supposing it either doesn't have a hard drive or the hard > drive doesn't work or it was just formatted. > > Is there any chance that anyone has a Debian floppy image for 1.44 > floppies
There are 1.44 floppy images on the debian site but they won't work. > that i would be able to boot off and run it with? I am trying to take over the > world with my spanky new machine. > Debian won't run on it since it has no mmu and a bunch of other things are missing (I think that there is also something about real/protected mode support). I think the minimum would be a 386 but could only be a 486. Also, 640KB will be stretching it quite a bit if possible at all. Even embedded systems usually have more today. I think even the most basic PDAs running linux need at least around 700K for the system, and thats with a buisybox doing all the usermode stuff. You may be able to get uclinux (mmu-less linux) to run on it but it will take a LOT of work and I am doubtful that it can. Your best bet if you want to get it running is to get a dos disk somewhere on the net (freedos should be available since dosemu uses it, and I ran into msdos 6 or 7 on mldonkey but never tried it). There are a few dos games sites around where you could probably get some games that will run over that. > Thanks > > Ken > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
