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Offline ACRizona

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Micro Core - Antique hardware P133 48MB SCSI
« on: March 21, 2012, 10:14:25 AM »

One-by-one, I tried all the ancient distros that will boot (via PLOP) from CD drive.
(No USB, No CD boot)
(Nothing boots from SCSI. Replaced SCSI with IDE-CD+HD to make testing easier)
 
Puppy 1.0.4 and DamSmellLinux 4.4 are the only survivors.
Puppy is horribly slow, and not upgradable to newer versions.
DSL is plenty fast and with a little dieting... Ummm, I hate diets  :P
Plus, neither will boot from SCSI disk. Poo-Poo.

TinyCore won't boot in 42MB (video consumes about 6MB).
How about skinny little MicroCore ?
I think I could get thru it with some advice,
or... how about dos-win-4-workgroups3.11 with added LFN support ?   ::) 

All suggestions appreciated.

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Re: Micro Core - Antique hardware P133 48MB SCSI
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 10:20:48 AM »
Sure, MC should work. Just boot it the same way you booted TC.

SCSI should work with the scsi extension.
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Re: Micro Core - Antique hardware P133 48MB SCSI
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 10:32:15 AM »
Wow, where does all that ancient hardware come from lately? I thought all those projects with computers for poor countries were more successful ;-) For extreme minimalism check also the possibility of a local initramfs (reducing core.gz for one special pc) http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,9028.0.html
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