From: snowden@cray.com (Jim Snowden) Subject: Re: Linux on 386 Laptop - Possible? Date: 19 Mar 1992 06:23:54 CST
In article <1992Mar18.201935.8476@udel.edu> boutell@tuttifrutti.udel.edu (Nefaratu the Boutellian) writes:
>I am planning to purchase a 386 - based laptop PC, with a hard drive of
>course, immediately after graduation. I would like to install Linux on
>this machine. Has anyone been able to install Linux on a laptop, and
>if so, what brand, model, et cetera? I don't want to buy a machine that
>can't run the ultimate hacker's OS. (-:
>
I have just got Linux 0.95a working on my laptop with no problems (once
I understood what was needed to be done!). The latest version seems to work
much better on my system (before, I occasionally got unexpect HD interrupt
messages and other funnies) - thanks to all who put it together!
The laptop is an Acer 1100LX 386SX/16Mhz, 5Mb RAM and with coprocessor.
Linux is in a 25Mbyte partition on the hard disk (I have also partitions
for DR DOS 6.0 and OS/2.
Jim Snowden
snowden@hemlock.cray.com