[wellylug] Linux on laptops

[Ian Sterling]

> I had a 486 laptop with 3.5 meg of ram.  The Potato installer needs more
> ram than that, so I had to use the lowmem bootdisk from Slink which let
> you create a small partition, copy the installer floppy into it and run
> it all from disk.  Once I'd done the slink install, I dist-upgraded to
> Potato.

Ugh.  That's hardcore, dude. ;)

> Even on my 33k6 modem, installing the packages took about one and a half
> times as long as downloading them.

Yeah, I can only imagine.  You didn't happen to build a kernel on that
thing, did you?  If so, how long did it take?  Days? ;)

I had a friend who ran RH on a 386 for the longest time.  He said
compiling kernels was a real pain in the rear.  I think he used it as
a router...