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I didn't see it on there; it's missing Monkey Linux, which was the first Linux I installed, on a 386 "laptop" (Compaq SLT/386) with 6 MB of RAM. Why 6 MB? Well
by cr0sh 7y ago
I didn't see it on there; it's missing Monkey Linux, which was the first Linux I installed, on a 386 "laptop" (Compaq SLT/386) with 6 MB of RAM.
Why 6 MB? Well, I bought it used without a battery, so I built one out of old NiCd cells from used cell phone batteries; this monster of electrical tape, hot glue, and hope did not fit into the spot meant for it, so with some creative dremeling and removal of a stick of RAM, I got it to "fit".
Monkey Linux was unique in one special way - it ran on top of the DOS filesystem, IIRC, in it's own partition. I think at the time I had Caldera's OpenDOS installed (speaking of which - it's not on the site, either). You could easily copy files back and forth from Monkey to MS-DOS. I never looked at it too deeply, but I bet everything was perm'd 777 root access, too - or something close.
I quickly moved on from Monkey to Turbo Linux 2.0 - but it served me well to learn a bit on (more like freshen up what I had known already from using AIX at a former employer).
Here's some links to Monkey:
http://projectdevolve.tripod.com/index.htm http://projectdevolve.tripod.com/index.htm
http://www.ipt.ntnu.no/~knutb/linux486/download/monkey/ http://www.ipt.ntnu.no/~knutb/linux486/download/monkey/
I don't know if you can get a complete download between those two links or not, but if WinWorld wants a full copy, they can contact me and I can send it to them.
Same for Caldera OpenDOS. I'm not sure what the last version of it I have of it, though.
- nineteen999 7y ago> Monkey Linux was unique in one special way - it ran on top of the DOS filesystem, IIRC, in it's own partition. Not unique at all; Slackware was installable to a UMSDOS partition in the same way back in the mid nineties. That's how a lot of us got started since you could get your feet wet without destroying your DOS/Windows partition. The performance was abysmal though, and this was apparent as soon as you got brave enough to partition your hard drive (or add a secondary drive) to install to ext2 native.
- lproven 7y agoI used Pygmy Linux which was similar -- it installed in a subdirectory of an existing DOS install and booted with LOADLIN. It was quite useful -- for example it was a simple effective way to probe IDE disk types and parameters, far easier than using multiple DOS utilities and cross-referencing. DR-DOS is still around and I have been working on getting some updates working. https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/58013.html https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/58013.html