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On Sunday 30 December 2001 20:02, Ed Centanni wrote:
> My initial reaction was "surely Linux will not run on an old PC-XT", but
> I decided to make sure before replying. Glad I did.
>
> The ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
> http://elks.sourceforge.net/faq/english-faq.html#1.4) could probably be
> made to run but don't expect a point-and-click install or much
> functionality after booting up.
I've toyed with ELKS off-and-on for the past several years.
I have an ancient 286 laptop that would boot ELKS from floppy
and occasionally run from the hard drive...
Don't try this at home unless you _really_ want a challenge. You
might consider the Linux From Scratch[1] project as an intro or
prereq to ELKS... ;)
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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