On 29 Mar 03 07:02:34 GMT, Paul Grenyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Different architectures make more or less efficient use of RAM, but I
>> suspect you are going to find it extremely difficult to even get debian
>> installed on such a system. My 5MB Amiga 2000 simply thrashed itself to
>> death
Hi
> Different architectures make more or less efficient use of RAM, but I
> suspect you are going to find it extremely difficult to even get debian
> installed on such a system. My 5MB Amiga 2000 simply thrashed itself to
> death trying to install packages, thanks to the bloated package
> databas
Hi
> Back to the A5000, http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ has stuff for ARM
> processor powered linux machines, the A5000 has an ARM3. Getting linux on
> an A5000 can be found here:
>
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/acorn/desc.shtml
Yes, thank you. However, the A5000 files need for install are
Hi,
This is wandering dangerously offtopic, but I'll be brief. On 28 Mar 2003,
Andrew Ingram wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:25, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > which is why riscOS is so flippin quick and my a3000 boots quicker than
> > a 1.1ghz pentium :)
>
> Exactly! I love Acorn machines and I don'
On 28 Mar 03 13:49:16 GMT, Paul Grenyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> However, RiscOS code is extremely compact, and whether Linux can do
> anything
>> useful in 4MB of RAM I'm not sure.
>
> I only want to run apache and CVS.
Different architectures make more or less efficient use of RAM, but
Hi
> In this particular case, that doesn't really apply. An Acorn (note
the
> spelling) A5000 is a very specific machine which uses an ARM (Acorn
RISC
> Machine) CPU and comes with a slightly Mac-like GUI (KDE has a theme
based on
> its look & feel) and an operating system called RiscOS.
Hi
(snip)
> This kind of information should be enough for most hardware people to
> give you a ballpark figure on whether or not things will work. Be
> prepared to break the motherboard description down to chipsets if it's
> an obscure one that nobody here has heard of or tried.
>
> I hope this
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