To: "jose@cnct.com" <jose@cnct.com> Cc: "ELKS List" <linux-8086@vger.rutgers.edu> From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@EARTHLINK.NET> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 97 08:49:10 Newsgroups: linux.dev.8086 On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 04:25:22 -0400 (EDT), jose@cnct.com wrote: > >I've tried out ELKS on a few systems with MDA, CGA, and VGA, so I >personally know those work (usually, I'm sure someone will find an >exception somewhere). Also I believe others have tried and succeeded with >Hercules and EGA, so I don't think you'll have a problem with video >support. I did have a problem trying to get elks to run on my old Tandy >notebook, but I didn't think much of it as it's on it's last legs, so TGA >might not work (though I don't see why not). I think thatTGA is proprietary in that it uses 16K of the base memory, rather than it's own, or something like that. I saw it in a book. TGA also does 16 colors high res., and slow, but few programs support that. It might work, and might not. > >If you want to play with the code, you do need bigLinux setup on a >machine to compile ELKS. As far as I know, nothing special is >needed on bigLinux except the development tools and the source. > >However, most of the newer releases have boot and root disk images you can >write with rawrite or a similar utility from DOS. These images are just >like bigLinux boot and root images, nothing special is needed here. >So you can transfer the image files to the target machine however you like >and rawrite them there. > >If anything I said is wrong, please reply for everyone's sake! :) > >--Jose > >BTW- Since I haven't seen anything about it on the list, linux.mit.edu is >back up!! > Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net
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