On Thu, 2003-03-20 09:23:34 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
wrote in message <20030320092334.31ee2254.rddunlap@osdl.org>:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:
>
> | However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a
> | machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM:
> |
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ ls -l linux-2.5.65.tar.*
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 jbglaw jbglaw 31889910 Mar 20 11:37
> | linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 jbglaw jbglaw 39711645 Mar 20 11:44
> | linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
> |
> | real 194m21.665s
> | user 172m55.026s
> | sys 14m19.018s
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2.5.65xx
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
> |
> | real 39m39.294s
> | user 22m32.306s
> | sys 13m56.524s
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ free
> | total used free shared buffers cached
> | Mem: 10100 9792 308 0 952 5232
> ...
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> ...
> | bogomips : 15.10
> |
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a
> | Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
>
> What kind of processor/system is that?
It's a UMC chip - a i486 clone without FPU. (I thought that this chip
was an i386 clone but uname tells me different so I believe it.)
However, I've got two early i386 (original Intel brand) laying around
and I'm definitely like installing Linux on them, just to see it
running:-)
MfG, JBG
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