Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:42:39PM +0100, Christian Brandt wrote:
> >I think you'll need more ram for any of the modern debian installers to
> >work. I think something like 40MB is currently the lower limit, but it
> >could be higher.
> The recent trend to "more ram" could make debian-m68k pretty pointless
> within one or two release cycles: Most m68k-systems just don't have 64
> or 256MB of RAM, we are lucky having 16MB of RAM.
Hmmm, even 128M is not that much anymore... :(
> I personally gave up using debian on my system (030/25Mhz/16MB-RAM)
> after 3.0 and even 3.0 is painfull to use. If I ever upgrade my old
> system it will be some sort of Linux from Scratch with ulibc or a
> handtuned libc6, tinyX, and a handtuned kernel. Maybe someone ports
> slackware for m68k.
> Is there even one single alternative to m68k-Debian which doesn't sum
> up as "Linux from Scratch"?
There was once an effort to port Gentoo to m68k. The intention was to
distribute binary packages as well. Maybe you want to ask Michael Frysinger
from Gentoo about the status. His chroot on one of my m68ks worked so far,
but I doubt that it would be less memory consuming than Debian 68k... ;)
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