Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:18:23 +0200 (MET DST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Chris Adams writes: > > Once upon a time, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> said: > > >> But, as Linus says, how many laptops come with only 8MB these days? > > > > It isn't just about laptops - that install CD should install on all > > computers. There are lots of computers around that have 8MB (or less) > > that people want to install Linux on - that's one of the attractions of > > Linux: you can do more stuff with less hardware. > > Typical 8 MB computers can not boot _any_ kind of CD-ROM. Since they > will need a boot floppy anyway, the CD-ROM boot can use a 2.88 MB > image and assume that the user has at least 16 MB. > > The boot floppy for older machines can drop support for many of the > motherboard and BIOS features that were introduced after CD-ROM boot. > > Systems that support CD-ROM boot have features like this: > > at least 16 MB of RAM > Pentium or later processor
That's not necessarily true either; PS/2's are an example here...
> no XT disks > better than color VGA > no Microchannel
Sorry, but that's wrong. The PS/2 can boot from CD, given it's an IBM-CD.
> no VLB or EISA (?) > PnP BIOS features > may have I2O > may have CardBus > > There might be a few things wrong on that list, but exceptions should > be rare. Don't pull out SIMMs to prove me wrong. :-)
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