User Feedback :: Running without a coprocessor

Great website... Thanks..

I guess I was wrong... THanks for the info, that is a cool site.

I could have had a 80387 math coprocessor in a separate socket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80387

I've run a fairly recent version (fall 2005) of DSL on an old Compaq Presario 425 w. 24MB RAM and it's a x486SX (no co-pro)...I had to substitute one of the pre-made 2.4 kernels from Slackware.com...it took me about an hour of hacking to get it going properly
(see the DSL wiki entry on running the CD from hard disk also... my computer didn't have a CD, so I took one of those old Parallel port CD drives, booted up in MSDOS, copied the DSL files (KNOPPIX dir) to my hard drive, then booted from that after I replaced the Kernel

4MB RAM might be pretty close to impossible to use DSL especially since the initial ram drive won't fit. I'd look for an old 2.2 or 2.0 -kernel-based distro...I don't think you'll be able to boot any "Live CD" in 4MB RAM...you'll have to go back to the old hard disk boot with original init.
(also make sure you set up a swap partition also if your config automatically searches for it and auto-mounts it)

...Just my casual thoughts...
Thomas Dzubin

The fact of the matter is...if the "Stock" DSL kernel did have the math co-processor built in monolithically how much bigger would it be, then it could truly be stated that DSL would run on damn near any processor out there

Newer hardware would simply ignore it and keep on trucking!

P.S. dzubin...would you happen to have a HOWTO or a working image of your "Tweaked" out DSL...

I have a friend at the HLUG here in Houston (and the HAL-PC group) that has one of those "all in one" computers (the puter with a monitor built in) and its a 486 with no math coprocessor...it would be cool to have DSL running on that sucker since its on the desk right beside the front doors

Let me know bud!

Brian
AwPhuch

Hey dudes, do any of you know anything about "Grid Computing".

I know Linux is capiable of it.

I have a programming back ground, mainly evil Windoze though with some C/C++ and VB. I have this idea to taking several older computers, network them together and be able to use all the processors as one. IE, the user wouldn't know this, it would all be in the background, the software would task out jobs to CPU's on the network that weren't doing anything.

I have read about grid computing but I am not completely sure if this would even be like that, I mean, it would be simular i think...

Has anyone ever messed with voice recognition software in Linux? I am still considered and newbee to Linux, I got into messing with Linux a few years ago with Red Hat 6 and OpenLinux but since I hate Windoze now, DSL and my new love. I want to learn all there is to Linux and become totally "Windozeless" at home and possibly at work (But my employer might not let that happen).

Just curious...

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