From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:58:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:58:13 -0400 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:6415 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:57:59 -0400 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200108170358.f7H3wCY36744@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: installing .01 To: fattymikefx@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:58:12 -0400 (EDT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010817031904.3DFEF501D7@localhost.localdomain> from "tristan" at Aug 16, 2001 11:19:04 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.