Re: [MLUG] Ancient Linux?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Is there a reason you were using an ancient version of Linux isntead of
something up-to-date? With some careful grooming you could turn most
popular dists into a mini-dist. Something like Slackware might fit your
needs pretty well.

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mark Rages wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just set up an old laptop as a little X-terminal. I used Xdenu, a
> two-floppy Xserver dist. It works well on my little 4-meg laptop.
> 
> I find myself wanting to add some software to it, though. The problem is
> that it is an 1.x kernel using libc4, yes, that's a.out!
> 
> I thought I would just install an old Linux with VMware or plex86, so I
> looked on Redhat and slack's website, but their oldest archived distro's
> are still libc5/ELF-based.
> 
> So how hard is it to set up a cross-compiler to generate a.out binaries?
> 
> Anybody got an old 386 linux box that I can have a shell on?
> 
> Are there any Linux historians on the list? 8-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
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