Not As OT As Driving Rants....

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Feb 19 23:15:36 2002

> But still a couple of years "green".
>
> I found a copy of Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux today, the User's
> Manual, CD & boot floppy.
> It's the Summer '94 edition; Linux v1.1. I've been looking through
> the HCL (so I can install it, of course!) and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs aren't
> even mentioned. Neither are any of the graphics adapters I own.
> Although I think the ET6000 will pretend to be an ET4k.
> But this bloat-hog demands 4M RAM and at least 3M diskspace,
> recommended 300M.
> This might get hairy...
>
> Doc

Hmmm, I think I might have a copy of that somewhere. Yggdrasil gave all of
us that were activelly supporting Linux free copies of at least there first
two or three releases. As for the graphics adapter requirements, those were
a nightmare since my 486/33 didn't like ET4000 based cards! However, by '93
there was a VGA driver, prior to that you could run MGR for a windowing
system. My problem was that my NEC CD-ROM's SCSI board wasn't supported.

BTW, I should still have floppies with 0.12 in my stash, and I've still got
the 486 in more or less the same configuration. For me Linux has been on
topic for over a month now :^)

                                Zane
Received on Tue Feb 19 2002 - 23:15:36 GMT