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Author Topic: I got a good one here......  (Read 2417 times)

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« on: August 14, 2004, 11:14:16 PM »
Found a relic from 1993.... an AT&T Jungle 3850, i think.  It's an ancient laptop with a removable 250 MB HD and otherwise unknown specs.  Dos is installed, but otherwise it's a blank slate.... anyone got anything as far as a really really small flavor of linux that has an actual GUI?
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Re: I got a good one here......
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2004, 06:29:32 AM »
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Found a relic from 1993.... an AT&T Jungle 3850, i think.  It's an ancient laptop with a removable 250 MB HD and otherwise unknown specs.  Dos is installed, but otherwise it's a blank slate.... anyone got anything as far as a really really small flavor of linux that has an actual GUI?


If you can find an older Slackware distro you might be able to get it up and running on that. I'd say something with the 1.2 series kernels, and basic X. You'll never get any modern GUI to run on it.

Oh yeah. And pray you don't need to recompile anything. Unless you have the better part of a day you can let it run for that is.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2004, 02:23:37 PM »
alrighty, any other suggestions?
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2004, 08:42:12 AM »
There's always DamnSmallLinux.  I've been hearing interesting things about it, and it's a pretty quick download/install.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2004, 01:28:09 PM »
How about Knoppix? Bootable Linux CD. Leaves a very small footprint on the HD for file swapping and stuff.
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2004, 05:18:58 PM »
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How about Knoppix? Bootable Linux CD. Leaves a very small footprint on the HD for file swapping and stuff.


That might work. But seeing as how the hardware is pretty ancient Knoppix might be too much for it.

I've never tried it or looked at it very deeply so I could be completely wrong.
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2004, 06:17:12 PM »
Yeah, you maybe right. I bet the driver database wouldn't have the drivers for stuff that old. And because Knoppix runs off the CD, you can't recompile the kernel from there. Would have to be a full install and recompile from a prompt. Man, reminds me of the first Linux distro I got my hands on. Took me 6 months off crashing before I got the kernel right. heh
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2004, 03:47:01 PM »
What distro was that? I don't recall having that many problems compiling kernels. But way back then I was one of those types that didn't know what was impossible or not so I did it anyway.
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« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2004, 02:58:43 PM »
well, it's kinda moot.... no CD-Rom to work with, it's all floppies with this one.
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« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2004, 09:49:55 AM »
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well, it's kinda moot.... no CD-Rom to work with, it's all floppies with this one.


The scary thing is that I still have floppies for old Slack installs kicking around the house. I wonder if any of them still actually work? Not likely since they must be 15 years old.
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