PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 13, 2020 19:51 UTC (Sat) by jak90 (subscriber, #123821)
In reply to: PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld) by flussence
Parent article: PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)

Also most of my retro computers still only have a CD-ROM or Iomega Zip 100 drive, so the full 3.8 GB release is kind of unwieldy to boot without a network connection. At least it features standard d-i NFS boot functionality.

PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 13, 2020 21:27 UTC (Sat) by TheOuterLinux (guest, #139502) [Link] (2 responses)

Author of PsychOS here, if your computer does not have a DVD/CD-ROM drive, it probably wont run all that well anyway. However, I am currently working on an i486 version called PsychOS486 and that should help. Hopefully. It'll be a while though. You can read up on the development notes here: https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io/documents/PsychOS486DevLog....

PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 15, 2020 6:55 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

Note also that an old computer might have a CD drive, but it cannot boot from it! I have Toshiba Tecra laptop that is that way. A Pentium MMX CPU, 80mb of RAM. The last Linux distro I succesfully installed on it was CentOS 3, which still had floppy images. Today even supposedly retro hw distros require the capability to boot from a CD or USB.

PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 15, 2020 9:17 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Very old laptop have a floppy disk drive and can boot from it.
They you can install a boot loader on a floppy disk that can boot from your CD.
This was a standard trick for installing Debian back in the day.