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[Philip Rhoades <phil AT pricom.com.au>]

sindi,


On 2016-10-09 03:36, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > You can also compile your own optimized kernel 2.2.26 which includes
> > > those modules and omits unused ones.  Or put together your own floppy
> > > version of BL to run directly on your hardware.  I managed both and
> > > posted about it.
> >
> >
> > Could you give me the link?
>
> Try searching on my baslinux, my name (keesan) compile and kernel.


I am not sure what you mean - the 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux archives are not searchable. 
 I had a look at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl but that didn't help 
much . .


> I also compiled a lot of programs.  You will need the kernel source
> code (large) for 2.2.26 and a few other files to compile with.  Edit
> the standard config file (or borrow Stephen's and modify it).
>
> Kernels compile rather slowly on a 486.


Isn't it possible to cross-compile on my big Fedora 25 workstation?


> My first BL computer had 12MB
> RAM (around 1999).  We were big on modem support then.  I used a 486
> laptop as a terminal (running programs on a speedy Pentium II,
> displaying on the 486 in VGA resolution).


About that time I had set up a small insurance company running a lot of 
floppy-booted Linux PCs that would get X etc from a server - they worked 
quite well as terminals / X servers - I should work out how I did that 
again . . after that exercise we went to commercial thin clients running 
X.


> For the custom BL, I think what I did was mount -o loop and replace
> the kernel and some of the modules.
>
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl (for a list of what is there 
> blfiles.htm).
>
> Try bl3fbfd.zip for a 2-floppy BL3 with framebuffer support.


OK, I will have a look.


> There is no need to include all of previous posts when you reply -
> ibiblio keeps them all.


OK!

BTW, Pricom used to produce a DOS-based Scientific / Multilingual WP 
(including Cyrillic character sets) - which worked in "character 
graphics" mode (8*16 pixels) on EGA and VGA screens.  I still have all 
the code and it works in dosemu etc from memory - I can show you some 
screen captures if you like.

Regards,

Phil.
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