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From: en4rab@bath.ac.uk (R A Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: MINIX 1.7.1 now officially available
Message-ID: <DIG8sB.45L.B.ss1@bath.ac.uk>
Organization: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK
References: <DHqxos.Jtp.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> <Pine.SUN.3.91.951118122435.19015A-100000@haus.efn.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:40:57 GMT
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In the referenced article, Jon Mini <j_mini@efn.org> writes:
>On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Andy Tanenbaum wrote:
>
>> I am going to post an announcement to various groups, so we may get some
>> newbies soon. 
>> 
>
>Looks like some appeared. Hya guys.
>
>                            ..I tried FreeBSd, I tried Linux, but to no 
>avail my measly 2 megs was not enough to run them, (Linux wouldn't boot 
>the install disks, FreeBSD did, but the install script ran out of memory 
>every time it tried to spawn to a simple library function like itoa().) 

I dont mean to seem to be promoting a competitor but you should have been 
able boot linux, I havent used it as i only have a 286 but i seem to 
recall it uses the 1 meg base memory to boot so if you choose a boot disk 
with too many drivers it will give you a kernel panic, there is a boot 
disk "bare.gz" which should be ok it might be a bit messy during the 
installation as you have to make a swap partition and enable virtual 
memory before the installation (this is normally done by the installation 
script) the only thing i found was you couldnt put the root and boot 
images on one disk like you can for minix and if you install the latest 
slackware version i think you arent supposed to uncompress the root image 
just rawrite it to a disk. Everything about installing on a machine <4MB 
is in a file called lowmem.txt or something similar on your local simtel 
mirror.

                   Brad

