I at one time had a toshiba 386 laptop 2mb ram 16mhz cpu etc...linux probably would work even on that. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Doug wrote: > It is possible to boot linux on 386SL with 6MB RAM. > It is also possible to fit a small linux distribution > in well under 80MB (text only, no x-windows). This > guy says he runs linux on a 386SL with 4MB RAM and > 80MB hard drive: > > "The laptop I use when I'm out and about has a 386SL, > 4Mb RAM, and an 80Mb HD, and I manage quite nicely > on it, thank you!" > http://dunne.dyn.dhs.org/~paul/articles/exe-linux > > So I think it will work, but you'd want as much RAM > as possible (ideally the max 20MB), and this is a > slow processor (25Mhz), so it won't be lighting > fast. I have no idea about the braille components, > I would imagine that some work would be needed to > get those working. Perhaps some existing code like > brltty could be adapted to work with it. > > If you want to try linux on a small machine like > this, look at some of the mini linux distributions > like pocket linux and such (there are many to choose > from). You can use tools like busybox to keep the > executables small. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
