On 11/04/2010 05:29 PM, David Given wrote:
I have a really old Toshiba laptop, a 520CDT. It's got a Pentium 166 and 48MB of RAM, which means that it has rather limited use these days. I did try to boot Haiku on it, and it just doesn't work: as soon as the boot loader loads I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in it and it just hangs. I can't say I'm very surprised... My question is: can Haiku be made to run on this at all? I know that technically 128MB is the minimum supported RAM, but can this be shaved down at all? For example, does such a thing as a command-line Haiku setup with no GUI exist?
What I'd try is to get it installed via qemu on a raw diskimage. Put it on a CD together with a minimal Linux + dd utility, then partition the HDD and dd the image onto the laptop's disk 1:1. All this assuming it does boot the first active partition and does use a swap file per default. :)
I'd like to hear results too, got a few old machines around as well I could throw Haiku on. Of course, if there's a way to use a native Haiku installer...
Cheers, -k