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Re: Booting other OS

To: sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Booting other OS
From: sven.utcke@xxxxxx (Sven Utcke)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:31:24 +0100 (CET)
In-reply-to: <389E54E5.6E890941@home.com> from Stewart Midwinter at "Feb 6, 2000 10:15:18 pm"
Reply-to: sven.utcke@xxxxxx (Sven Utcke)
Sender: owner-sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxx

Hello Stewart,

[lots of thoughts about booting OS in s3k]

> Loadlin can be used to boot Linux from DOS, but Linux still needs to be
> able to recognize, and format SRAM and flashRAM cards.

Again, don't forget that Linux proper requires a minimum of 386 with
4MB (2MB for the smallest possible version), while all we got is a
lowly 8088.  Elks or minix, yes.  But Linux will never run on that
machine.

Sven
-- 
      IBM Thinkpad 701C, 80486 DX4/75, 40MB RAM, 3.2GB HDD, Linux 2.0.36

References:
- Booting other OS
  - From: Stewart Midwinter

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