Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM
Hi.
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 04:04:00 +0200
Michael <codejodler@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Have a look here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution
>
> Yes, with an old Laptop one really should chose a rather old kernel, but then, the latest 'stable' Debian possibly will not run on that thing (for example, systemd). So you would either chose an old Debian in the first place, or use some specialised minimal Linux.
You should try it one day. Swap is a must, and it's unlikely that
you'll manage to run GNOME on such hardware, but still:
$ free -m | cut -c -62
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 52 50 1 3 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 40 11
Swap: 714 48 666
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release: 8.0
Codename: jessie
Installing the thing involved debootstrap, but then again - debootstrap
is one of the few ways to get a minimal Debian installation anyway.
> 64 M is a tough condition. Maybe you're already in the 'embedded systems' class with this ...
No. 'Embedded' ends if your RAM exceeds 1M. In that case you really
need stripped-down kernel. 64M is plenty as long as you don't run X
with all the bells and whistles.
Reco
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