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On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Using yahoo webmail, as far as I can tell I only have a choice of html 
> or "plain text". I already chose plain text, guess its not plain enough. 
> Will investigate later...

This time there was only one copy of the mail, no html or unicode.

> A 2.4 kernel is fine with me if you feel like making one!
I don't yet know how to patch kernel source - do you?
I think 'patch' appends the corrections to a file somehow.


> My only option for networking it at the moment would be a null modem 
> link to another pc. Doesn't seem worth the effort to set it up.

Do you have a parallel port transfer cable?  Parallel port zip drive? 
Both work in DOS with under 640K memory.

A nullmodem cable would let you use the laptop as a real terminal
to run programs on some other computer with serial port.

> I have been attempting to compile on one of my faster machines then 
> transfer the compiled kernel to the laptop with a floppy disk. I 
> mentioned slackware earlier, but have been using a ubuntu virtual 
> machine, as from what I have read that should work too.

So what happened when you tried?


> I have been unable to find any 2.6 kernel linuxes that would run in the 
> laptops 12mb ram. Tiny core needs more like 48mb.

I ran BL1 on a laptop with 12MB RAM 486 for a while.  It needed a special 
XF86Config file.  Does it have a PCMCIA slot to which you could add CF 
memory card (in a CF adaptor)?

Does svgalib cause the same problems as X?  BL1 came with a jpegviewer 
based on svgalib, and I compiled libvga for kernel 2.4.

None of my laptops do svgalib well but some work in plain VGA mode.
svgalib uses less memory than X.  seejpeg.  links2 in svgalib mode.
Sindi