-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I did exactly this with Slack 3.4. I've got 486sx16 with 4MB running just fine now. I eventually stripped the thing down so either the kernel starts /bin/sh directly or perhaps init did that. I forget which. In this case I had an external parallel port superdisk drive. The trick was to stick a UMSDOS install on a superdisk, boot from floppy and set root to be the superdisk. It's already fully functional (though painfully slow) at this point. I just fdisked, formatted and then copied over what I wanted. It's a simple if slow way to get the PC running something. The sad thing is it worked much better under DOS 5.0. Linux is heavyweight for the poor thing. I was quite happy editing text files for IBM's assembler using DOS's edit.com. Now it's mostly unuseable. I might bring it a curiosity. Joshua b. Jore http://www.greentechnologist.org On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Daniel Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Bill Layer wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:44:36 -0600 > > Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote: > > > > > Anyone coming who's done a 4MB Laptop install? That's what _I'm_ > > > hoping to accomplish... > > > > It depends a lot on what distro you are talking about, and how you can > > manage to install it. Which distribution are you planning on using? > > > > Does this laptop have: > > > > - a CDROM drive? > > - an Ethernet connection? > > - PCMCIA slot(s)? > > - a parallel port? > > > > A little more info and I can come up with plans for doing it... > > > > Done that, get ahold of an older Slackware and you should > be set. Perhaps someone who is going saturday has one in their archive? > > I'd bring a couple of mine, but I can't make it. > > Tom's Root/boot would make a nice starting point as well. > > -- > Daniel Taylor > dante at plethora.net > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8WDP0fexLsowstzcRAsMmAKCzJGpcJTYK+xEJEU8/PeZqgH5FigCgofJi cDtqvTOwd1q3RyJko5qeGxA= =ElsP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----