Dreaming of a lean installation method [was Re: *nix on"classic" systems]

[Angel Martin Alganza]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:21:05AM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
 
> Your extra 4MB might be hidden behind your video card.  That's the

Man, I should have realized that myself :-)

> case with my PS/2-E... it's a 486SLC - a laptopish 386SX with some
> extensions - thus a max 16M address space.  In my case, there's a
> jumper to allow direct addressing of the RAM on the video card to
> enhance the "pep" of windowing environments, leaving 12MB of system
> RAM visible, or, you can have access to all 16MB of RAM, but pokey
> bitmap graphics.  Obviously, I chose 16MB and poor bitmap performance
> since I am not running a windowing environment.  Unfortunately, I'd be
> surprised to see such a jumper on a laptop.

Of course I would also choose to have all the RAM to the operating
system and none for video.  I whish there is a way to do so on this
laptop... I'll try to figure it out.  Does somebody here knows?

> So one question to ask is, is that laptop a 486SX or DX, or is it a
> 486SLC.  Those are two entirely different chips.

It's a Compaq Contura 410CX, a 50MHz Intel i486DX2, acording to
http://www.laptopmemoryupgrade.com/memory/CompaqContura410CXMemory.html.

Cheers,
Angel

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