[aclug-L] Re: Running Linux on a PS/2, how?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linux requires a minimum of 4mb of RAM and a 386 processor.  So you don't
have enough RAM in that system for Linux.  I also doubt it has a 386
processor--it's probably a 286.  That machine could be used as a "dumb
terminal", though... you hook it up to another Linux machine and log ingo
your Linux machine using a terminal program (such as Telix) on the PS/2,
thus allowing two people access to the same Linux machine at the same
time.

That's something I may touch on at the Network day... if you're there you
may learn how to do exactly that.  :-)


On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Patrick R. Klee wrote:

> Hello ACLUG,
>     I recently got an IBM, PS/2 with 640 KB of RAM and I haven't checked
> ouyt how big the Hard Disk is, but I was wondering, what OS could I put
> on it, and how?  If only has a 3.5" floppy drive.
> 
> 

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