RE: [SLUG] Building small systems.

From: wchast@utilpart.com
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 09:27:21 EST


Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 22:46, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
>
> What precisely do you mean by "older machines"?!!?
> Some of us, for example, think of older machines as 386 20Mhz, in
> regard to Linux.
>
> Give us more to feed on! ;-)

Anything 386 and above. I am not going to try to run it on '286,
They can replace those or stay with the old stuff until they want
to.

I want to come up with a CD that I can either boot from the CD
or as will probably be the case with these machines use a boot
disk to get things started on the CD, the use the CD to install
a working system with the stuff I need on the HD which is already
on the machine. This is basicly a mullti-protocol router so it
will have besides the IP stuff something called ROSE/FPAC which
is a X.25 implementation for radio called AX.25, the ROSE/FPAC
part is the network part, the AX.25 part is more like the MAC
layer. It will also have something called NetRom/TheNet which
is another protocol that amateur radio people use, there is a
third one called Flex, which if I can get it (the idiots in
germany who did it created it on proprietary systems and are
not at all happy about having it ported to LINUX, so it may not
get put in the stack just out of principal)

All of this stuff can either be run as modules or compiled
into the kernel, what I want to do is come up with a install
that will run on as wide a number of machines as the floppy I
now have does (only barfed on a old 8086, have not tried a
'286 yet, can no find one!!)

It may also be good to have the install on floppies if the
machine is to old or too hard to get to to stick a CD on it,
I will just ship the images to the switchop and tell him/her
to create floppies and go feed the beast.

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