19 Feb
2002
19 Feb
'02
1:39 p.m.
But still a couple of years "green".
I found a copy of Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux today, the User's
Manual, CD & boot floppy.
It's the Summer '94 edition; Linux v1.1. I've been looking through
the HCL (so I can install it, of course!) and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs aren't
even mentioned. Neither are any of the graphics adapters I own.
Although I think the ET6000 will pretend to be an ET4k.
But this bloat-hog demands 4M RAM and at least 3M diskspace,
recommended 300M.
This might get hairy...
I remember the Yggdrasil distribution. I think I threw my
old copies away a couple of years ago. I remember reading
that 1G was required to load everything and wondering how
I was going to get that much space. I had 12MB of RAM so
I was covered there, and I remember searching for an ET4000-
based ISA video card so I could run 16-bit color. I bought
a 512K ET4000 and added another 512K I scrounged from some-
where. 1MB video card! All that with a 33MHz 486DX CPU.
My CDROM drive was the original Mitsumi 0.9X (or so) drive.
But it was a change from the roll-your-own Linux installation
I was originally doing, and the many floppy SLS distribution
I used after that. Imagine, everything on one CD!
Now my main Linux box has 120GB HD, 2GB RAM, 64MB video card,
dual PIII-750MHz CPUs, and a 40X CDROM drive.
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Eric Dittman
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