Re: installing .01

Nicholas Knight (tegeran@home.com)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:02:00 -0700


On Thursday 16 August 2001 08:58 pm, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> tristan writes:
> > I want to install the linux kernel 0.01 on my 386 machine, and im
> > lost on how to do it.
>
> Go up a few versions, to 0.02 maybe, if you have any hopes of
> running a compiler on this system. You will need at least 4 MB of
> RAM for compiling, since the early kernels didn't support swap.
>
> Minix-386 is a hacked up Minix. Minix is an educational OS for
> the 8088 that was just recently made free. There once was a
> collection of patches that would add 386 feature support.
> So you could get Minix running, patch it, then build Linux.

hacked up? not anymore...

http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/2.0.2/
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