4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (2000)

Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by rahimnathwani on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:30AM (#14600898)

"This was a minor inconvenience compared to swapping the 40 1.44mb disks needed to install it"

This was a minor inconvenience compared with recompiling the kernel overnight in order to add soundblaster support. (This was before modules.)

(Oh, and I learnt not to buy cheap no-name floppies, after the installation process failed several times, each at a different stage.)

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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by acidburn1995 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:02PM (#14609833)

To this day, I can remember how to build a 1.2.X kernel. You were also very lucky if you had a soundblaster card, because only a handful of sound drivers that were in the kernel.

A little later OSS came out. To get sound to work a lot of cases you had to shell out money for commercial sound drivers, or get a crack from #linuxwarez.

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