Re: Linux distro request
- From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
On Apr 8, 12:58 pm, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Rugxulo" <rugx...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You said you'd tried Puppy (which now needs 128 MB of RAM, sadly) and
DSL (which needs approx. 32 MB minimum, it seems). I like the latter
(although I don't use it except very very very rarely, I'm not a
Linuxer).
One of the ones I tried claimed 32Mb but actually needed more... I think it
reported 40 or 48 on a different machine.
ZipSlack swears to be usable on 8 MB (or even 4 MB with swapfile), but
I've never tried (yet??). If you really want low RAM, maybe you should
try Minix?? It's got a lot of GNU utils now (and 3.x series has a
liveCD). BTW, I assume you're aware of the older DOSMinix (2.0.4), but
that's fairly slow.
http://www.minix3.org/
Still, I think DeLi (2.4.x kernel, no X = 8 MB min. RAM) might be more
what you really want. Either that or DSL with add-ons and a big swap
partition (mkswap, swapon). Or even a BSD (e.g. NetBSD w/ laptop
kernel) since they are POSIX compliant and use GCC + ELF, too. I
haven't really tested all the *BSDs, but I *think* NetBSD is the
leanest (although FreeBSD is more popular).
I'm pretty positive Puppy can handle that since it claims to be able
to (as well as write back to CD). However, I think DSL loads
completely in RAM, so it doesn't need a CD after booting either.
What was odd was Puppy had a non-bootable development filesystem as an .iso
image, but it wouldn't let me unmount the Live-CD... I've seen a few
recovery CD's that allow unmounting the booted CD. Usually, the /etc/fstab
lines for the mounted image are removed.
Why, what do you wish to build? Anything in particular? (gNewSense has
GCC by default as does the older NetBSD liveCD. But I think both of
those need lots of RAM.)
No, nothing particular. Just occasional need to compile various random GPL
stuff on Linux with upto date GCC, glibc, and sometimes kernel.
Linux has better device support than most other "free" OSes. But if
you don't mind lacking some things like that (scanner, printer), there
are plenty of OSes.
I want FAT12, FAT32X, etc. compiled in. I've seen a few recovery CD's that
didn't have it.
NetBSD has both "msdos" (normal) and "vfat" (LFNs). And I'm pretty
sure all of the above-mentioned Linuxes do too. Even Minix 2.x has
tools to read SFN DOS partitions, at least. At worst, you could always
dual boot w/ FreeDOS + DOSLFN (or use DOSEMU). But check anyways since
most people support 'em now.
Be sure to tell me your success / failures for any or all of these (or
whatever) since I'm always interested how people revive old
hardware. :-)
Rugxulo
http://www.geocities.com/snoopimeanie/freedos.htm
http://rugxulo.googlepages.com
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