Pardon the intrusion from my unexperienced self, just a few questions .... On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Ulrich Hansen <uhan...@mainz-online.de> wrote: > > I have read that MS Client with MS DOS works OK for you. But if you want to > stick with Free Software, why not use a real Samba server together with the > FreeDOS/MS Client clients? A Pentium 1 should be enough for that. Download > for instance Debian Stable from here: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso
Eek, 191 MB, and that's not even everything, is it? :-( > and when it comes to step "Software selection" choose "File server". This > will install Samba. > Don't install a desktop environment. Excellent details, even better if it actually works! ;-) But does Debian run on i386 [sic] anymore? I thought most people had (unfortunately) switched to i686 (CMOVxx), e.g. Fedora. Or is Debian more lenient?? Even if the cpu instructions themselves are compatible (no CMOVxx, which Pentium 1 lacks), you may not have enough RAM. I don't know for sure, but everything I had read always seemed to hint that a Pentium typically couldn't have more than 64 MB, so trying to cram a recent Debian might be a bit of a stretch, to say the least. I have no idea of a better solution, unfortunately, only a blind guess that "maybe"?? Slackware 11.0 (circa 2006), aka ZipSlack, might work? At least it's easy to install atop DOS (kernel 2.4.x) and is "only" 67 MB .ZIP'd. I'd assume it has lower RAM requirements. Though it's not a "full" install by any means, but you can add on any extras you need (supposedly). ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/zipslack/ Well, hopefully everything Ulrich said will "just work" without worrying about all this extra stuff. Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
