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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> How much RAM?  I saw an account of somebody who ran Slackware
> with Xvesa in 4mb RAM.  He moved the HD to different system,
> installed everything there and then moved the HD back into
> the laptop.
>
Ok, here's a challenge (I'm supposed to be spending less time on computer
stuff and more on school work, so don't tell my wife . . .).  I've got a
really neat little 386 SX 25 with 4MB RAM that I'd really like to put to
some use.  It's got an old onboard 256 KB video (Trident?).  Technically,
I should not be able to run BL2 on it, since it has no math coprocessor.
But let's say I installed BL1 there, then the xvesa binary.  Could I then
use it to get an xsession from my more up to date machine that runs
Debian?  Shall I give it a whirl?  Pointers on how?

James