All I want is base LINUX with hopefully a basic X-windows...
I have 100MB to play with.
20MB ram unit.
Also, if I am not mistaken doesnt the disk order go something like this...
hda1 is FLASH ROM
hdb1 is The CF slot on th eirght hand side of the unit
hdc is my Type III 260MB drive, which is chopped in 3 pieces as follows.... hdc1=100MB for WIN95, hdc2=10MB Swap Partition for
LINUX & hdc3=90MB for Linux Filesystem....
Any reccomendations?
More details... My 4MB flash ROM is bootable when I remove the Type III drive, this gives me basic PC DOS, ProComm & a Alpha paging program.... I am willing to scrap that & give it to LINUX/LILO if that will make it work better...
I am using System Commander to select between OS's, so really, I do not even need LILO, but I don't know how to NOT install it...
Am I making sense???
(Hell, if I could get a good PIM & find a way to administer my NT servers from X-windows, I would scrap 95 altogether)...
Forgive me for not being a master at Linux.....
jg nospam at thegrid.net
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On 3/3/98, at 8:37 PM, Eric Fixler wrote:
>Well, I have Linux running on my PC110, but it's glitchy; I have to boot
>from floppy and it doesn't recognize the compact flash card. Still, for
>what it is, it works great.
>
>100 MB would be fine, if a bit tight, for a simple system, but I'm not sure
>about X Window. (I'm not running it). Remember that you need a swap
>partition, which is generally supposed to be at least as big as your RAM.
>
>Right now I'm using 128 mb on a system that has GNU c compilers, Apache,
>Perl, the Hylafax fax server, and about 5mb of WWW stuff (it's my staging
>area for projects), along with a 24Mb swap partition.
>
>I'd be careful about assuming that you won't want to do too much with it,
>because once it works, you just might want to do more.
>
>Some other installation tidbits: I installed Slackware. Copied the base
>dist floppies to the DOS partition and installed them to the linux
>partition from there. I use a DLink DE620 Parallel ethernet adaptor, which
>is supported in the kernel, and it works great, but you must set your
>parallel port to be LPT2 and disable COM2 (you may be able to get around
>the latter). I'm not sure about your unit, but I think that many of these
>pocket e-net adapters are OEM versions of the sam ething.
>
>Best o' luck...
>
>eric
>
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>>I have redone my PC110 config...
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>>I have setup on my 4MB Falsh ROM PCDOS 6.3 & a couple comm utilities I
>>need just for DOS & my Serial I/O card.
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>>I have a 20Mb RAM unit.
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>>I have also the 260MB HDD PC TYPE III drive.
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>>I have split it up between LINUX & WIN95...
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>>On the 1st 148 MB I have WIN 95/DOS. - Works fine...
>>
>>On the remaining space on the drive (100MB) I want to install a Plain Jane
>>LINUX system w/ X-windows....
>>1st question, can this be done on a 100 MB drive?
>>2nd, How big should I make my Swap Space?
>>3rd, what modules should I install for just basic LINUX & if at all
>>possible X-WIndows?
>>
>>I just need a small LINUX system that will allow me do basic UNIX comads
>>(for learning) & so I can install a AlphaNumeric paging program that I am
>>hoping will work with the nternal modem....
>>
>>I have REDHAT 4.2.
>>If i can get X-Windows going & get it networked with my Xircom PE3
>>Parallel Adapter (Ethernet), I will be in heaven...
>>
>>
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated....
>>
>>Josh.
>>jg nospam at thegrid.net
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