On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:01:23PM -0600, Jay Kline wrote: > I saw the thread going on the Tiny Linux, running a P2 with 80Mb disk- well, > I recently got a Laptop to help out in my OS class for school. Its a Compaq > 286LE. It has 640K memory, and 10Mb disk drive (not sure if its AT or what > yet). Currently it has Minix installed on it (for class) but when my class > is done, I want to see if I can get Linux to run on it. Does anyone know > if any distro's out there can support this? Or, if I have to hack my own, any > hints? Nope, Linux won't run on a 286 (because of the lack of floating point math on board IIRC), but you can take a look at ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) http://elks.sourceforge.net/. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org