are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question

[Richard A. Smith]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:13:27 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Thursday 09 January 2003 4:43 pm, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:54:14 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > If you have a flash chip big enough fro a kernel I don't think it'll fit
> > > into the normal 32 pin socket used by 2 mbit BIOS chips.
> >
> > A 29F040b is a 4 m-bit (512k) part and is a std jdec 32 pin pacakge.
> > I have managed to get a bios (commercial) + kernel in that.  No root
> > disk though.  Had to use a 2nd chip for that. (It was a custom board)
> 
> How did you get a kernel into <512kbytes?   What version did you start from?
> 

2.4.2.  You just have to turn off everything but the essentials. 
Works out to 480k or so.

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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.               
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