This is rapdily reaching the point where it no longer has anything to do with 80386 support, nor even the i386 port. Perhaps we should move it elsewhere? >> [...] I have an hp300 with a grand total of five megabytes of RAM. > Could you cross-build it from a more modern machine? Possibly...if any of the easily-cross-buildable versions cross-build to anything small enough to run on it at all. The last thing I've even tried to run on it is pre-2.0; it's been a long time since I tried, in large part because I had trouble and came to the conclusion that I had a fried output pin on the HP-IB interface. I need to test more and maybe do some hardware work.... >> There's another machine I have which is in a similar situation with >> disk space. As far as I know, no interface hardware exists at all >> (much less is commonly available, even as comared to the machine >> itself) to allow it to use even IDE, much less SATA, disks... > I have a Javastation Krupps that has no disk interface. Ouch, that's even rougher. > I've toyed with the idea of turning it into a diskless X terminal or > even just a simple music player. I will need to learn how to set up > a server for it to netboot from. This machine I once ran under 1.4T, with local disk, back when I had enough working disk for it to make that feasible; I've also tried running it diskless. Diskless was slower by a factor of three to four, as I recall (it was a fairly long time ago, so I don't entirely trust that memory), at least for the workload I was using, which was a build of the world. When running diskless it would crash often enough I was unable to get a complete build of the world; I haven't investigated enough to know whether the hardware developed a subtle flaw or there's a bug somewhere that's tickled by running it diskless. Some one of these years I want to dust that machine off and get it back in operation; I've got fond memories of using them back in the '80s. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B