[wellylug] Linux on Antique Boxen

[Centurion Computer Technology Limited]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:58, Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group wrote:
> With the help of Fletch working on the 2020 Trust machine following 
> 'Linux From Scratch' he built a damn fine solution that worked extremely 
> well with 64Mb and even managed to squeeze in Abiword and Gnumeric 
> without having to do any real swapping. Unfortunately the HDD died right 
> at the last minute. Never the less it was quite a nice setup on a 
> P100/64MB and I was very impressed.
> 
> Rob.
> 
>
How did he get it down in size?
 
> Richard Hector wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 02:49, David McNab wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Bottom line of all this?
> >>
> >>64MB is a bare minimum for a usable system.
> >>Anything less feels like root canal therapy during a hangover with no
> >>anaesthetic.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That sounds like a challenge :-)
> >
> >How about an evening where we bring along the most minimal system
> >(hardware wise) we can, with as much functionality as possible?
> >
> >Richard
> >(time to rebuild that old 386 ...)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  .-.   Wellington
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