Hello Jérémie_LEFRANCOIS, Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 2:05:51 PM, you wrote:
J> Where would I download a free OS/2 (possible ?) and a free LINUX both "stripped J> down" as you say ? Or they have to be installed and the GUI never started I J> suppose... J> I found "TINYLINUX" somewhere , yet what do you suggest ? Of course the latest J> Red Hat is out of scope... Concerning "Tinylinux"... There was a Linux distribution named MiniLinux, which fitted on only four 1.44MB floppy disks, and it didn't include GUI, but worked... somehow. There were neither man pages nor compiler, but I think one had been able to extra-download needed. Later version was about 32MB, without GUI, but worked relatively stable. Warning: if you downloaded this version, you couldn't unzip it with PKUNZIP 2.04g under plain DOS because of memory usage with this program. You should use WinZip or something instead. Both versions had been starting under plain DOS using linux.bat, had been stopping by rebooting with ctrl+alt+del. The former was considered having problems with large disks / partitions (I cannot recall the problem exactly). So, you might try the latter one? Only if everything else fails, of course... J> Getting the whole thing to work on LINUX might imply more work than getting it J> to work under DOS, so that option is not my first choice, but seems advisable J> in the end of the process, to have a "safer" multitasker. Moreover, it seems pretty much machine (OS) dependent. I'd like I was wrong... P. S. There was a Linux distribution YUCCA (stood for "Yugoslav Computer Communications Association"), which one had been able to obtain on a three disks, and still had had GUI. I have never tried. Best regards, Ivan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
