[1871] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Pleae, for God's Sake, Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Sat Oct 25 20:19:29 1997
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:14:00 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Alistair Bates <alistairb@laureltrees.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Alistair Bates's message of Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:14:02 +0100,
<hLhRDAAKMlU0IwFs@laureltrees.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:14:02 +0100
From: Alistair Bates <alistair@laureltrees.demon.co.uk>
I have been scouring your web page for well over three days for
a copy of linux that will run on a 286. This has cost me a considerable
amount of money and as I am only 16 this means that I have not great
source of income. Please could you e-mail me with a copy, send details
of where I cna download one from or anything that you think could help
a confused lost 16 yr old.
Unfortunately, Linux does not work on a 286. Linux requires at least a
386 or better, because it requires the use of the virtual memory system
which the 286 does not have.
There is a development project called ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel
Subset) which is currently under way to provide a Linux Kernel for
embedded systems. ELKS will run on a 8086 and 80286 but there are no
distributions for it, and it is currently not self-hosting. (That is,
you can't build ELKS under ELKS yet; you have to build ELKS under a
Linux development system.)
If you want to know more about the ELKS project, you can find out more
about it at the following URLS:
http://www.linux.org.uk/ELKS-Home/index.html
http://epocha.pd.mcs.net/Linux8086/
- Ted
