Re: Minimal memory installation
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:39:02PM -0400, Levi Bard wrote:
> Yeah, it hangs while loading the root ramdisk into memory. Maybe I'll try to find a copy of slink, or maybe I can install a distri designed for embedding, then add apt.
You could put the harddisk of this box in another computer with more ram
for installation or rebuild boot-floppies without all the languages and
put a minimal kernel (2.2) on the boot disk.
I'm relativly sure that this is doable, but running apt with 8 MB will
take ages for anything!
Christian Leber
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