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- From: data@cs1.bradley.edu (Mark Hall)
- Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for linux - just to run single user
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- References: <data.715303501@cs1.bradley.edu> <1992Sep1.135811@tiger1.prime.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 10:15:38 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.135811@tiger1.prime.com> cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) writes:
-
- >Er, Ah, is it a SigmaSigma step chip? or does it have the infamous task switching
- >bug in it? If its a REALLY old 386, you may not be able to use it.
-
- I am not aware of a task switching bug...:) I've run Desqview with no
- problems. I just don't like it. :) SigmaSigma step chip? I am not familiar
- with that.
-
- >> ram. (Ok...You can stop laughing now... :) Should I assume that ...
- >Whose laughing? My Dad has my old 16MHz 386 DX with 1MB of RAM. 640K conventional
- >and 384K extended? Do you have ANY extended memory? Or is it configured as
- >BIOS shadow RAM?
-
- No. I have NO extended. Just conventional 640 K. Really sucks.
-
- >> Linux? I'm hoping to be able to upgrade to at least 2 megs sometime, but am
- >In order to upgrade a 1MB 386 to 2MB, you have to be able to add in 4 banks of
- >256K memory. 386 memory must be 32 bits wide unless you have an SX system,
- >in which case it must be 16 bits wide. Since most memory banks are 8 bits wide,
- >you either need space for another 4 banks on your motherboard or on a 32bit
- >memory card. If you only have space for 4 memory banks, then you will need
- >to upgrade them from 256K chips to 1M chips, increasing your memory from 1MB to
- >4MB.
-
- Not sure what my chips are. I'll probably just buy a 32bit expansion card.
- There's no room on the motherboard for expansion (my motherboard is just a
- bus) and the memory is a card...Stupid...Same for Processors, and I/O stuff.
-
- >> D*mn. Mem swap error (or something like that).
-
- >Sounds like 1MB is too little memory. I have heard of people running in 2MB
-
- Yeah...I found out in the FAQ (somebody was nice enough to mail it to me...:)
- Thanks! that it requires 2M just to boot. ALso, several people have made
- suggestions on the amount of memory and HD space to make available to linux.
- I've got a rough idea of the system I need to do that...:)
-
- >on 386SX processors. Just be sure to configure a swap partition (4-8MB) to
- >get you running. As long as there is sufficient memory to run the kernel in,
- >swap space will look like paged virtual memory to your system, and it will
- >manage it for you. I have 4MB ram, and 10MB swap. I haven't run out of memory
- >yet. I suspect you could run with 2M ram and 4 MB swap, but it would be slow.
- >(Lots of disk accesses I suspect.)
-
- Probably. Couldn't be worse than on our AT&T 3b2 (ugh! :)
-
- Mark
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