Re: Small Debian Install?

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

On Aug 12 2001, ktb wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:02:09PM -0400, JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> > Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a
> > 160mb HDD. Will I be able to install Debian on this? How about X
> > windows?
> 
> http://7thguard.net/files/DebianHOWTO.txt
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html

	One of the biggest problems that I have noticed (I haven't
	read the above documents, so I may be restating what they're
	saying) is that glibc is quite large for a computer with only
	4MB of RAM.

	There are some projects out there on the net that intend to
	make a smaller version of the Unix's standard libc library,
	namely dietlibc and uClibc. I haven't used any of these, but
	if I had to cope with such restrictions, I'd definitely use an
	old kernel (since they are lighter) stripped of any unused
	module, a busybox to use as commands and one of these
	"lighter" libraries, disabling unnecessary services also.

	Using X is not very good in such cases.


	[]s, Roger...

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